marry a noble wife

Chapter 8

She first fried the coffee beans in a clay pot, then ground the coffee beans into powder with a small stone mill, filtered the dregs with two layers of gauze, and added sugar to drink.But the brewed coffee tasted bitter. Thinking of the delicious coffee with milk in the previous life, I immediately swallowed.

The aroma of the brewed coffee overflowed, Xiuzhen and Xiucai looked at her eagerly and swallowed, Jiuya rolled her eyes and suddenly smiled and said, "Do you know if anyone in the house has ever drunk milk?"

"Milk?" Xiuzhen and Xiucai looked at each other, and after feeling scared, she opened her mouth and replied, "When I was in Fifth Miss's room, I didn't see her drink it, but every day someone brought fresh ones, and Fifth Miss used it to drink milk." Come to wash your face, the moisturizing effect is very good. The girl asked, do you also want to use that thing to wash your face?"

Jiuya smiled, and said something wrong, she got up and said: "I haven't paid my mother's greetings for two months, everything is fine today, let's go to my mother's Fuguixuan."

Xiucai's face froze, she looked at her legs and said softly, "But the girl's legs..."

Jiuya smiled kindly, "I'll save it, I'll go there with a limp, and I won't embarrass you."

It was August at this time, when the weather was so hot that people couldn't breathe, when we arrived at the Fuguixuan, we didn't see anyone outside, but there was cheerfulness coming from the banquet hall with thick blue and white tangled curtains. laughing.Jiuya limped over, Xiuzhen and Xiucai were waiting outside, and when she approached, someone opened the curtain to let her in.A chill came over the room immediately. It turned out that white air rose from the wooden barrels at the four corners of the hall. It must have been filled with ice, which made the whole room cool and comfortable.

"It's the eighth girl, let's say hello to the girl." The person who opened the curtain for her was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in a stone blue dark pattern brocade straight shirt, with only a jade hairpin on her head. Clean and elegant.Jiuya thought for a while, "Are you Yudie?"

Yudie was a little absent-minded at first, and was taken aback when she heard the words, "Young lady doesn't recognize me?"

Jiu Ya smiled, but didn't make a sound.Yudie is the daughter of her nanny, Mother Feng, and she has been working for the fifth aunt, but since the original owner's accident, Xiao has found an excuse to ask Yudie to go to Fuguixuan. Fengxuan went to Wu Yiniang's side as an errand.She didn't know what the mystery was, but Yudie's eyes were red, and it seemed that she was not having a good time.

She went straight to the center and said, "Greetings to mother, five sisters, sixth sisters and seventh sisters."

Her voice was not insignificant, but the few sitting over there seemed to have not noticed her as a person. They saw Song Jinzhi, the fifth girl, holding a piece of embroidery in her hand, and Song Jinyuan, the sixth girl, leaned over to look at her. He was full of praise, "Look how dexterous this Bingdi lotus embroidery is, from light to thick colors, I don't know how many different colored threads are used, plus the needles and threads are fine and dense, it's absolutely seamless, it's not the fifth sister who pointed it out, I think it's true Yes, such a good craftsmanship makes my sister envious."

Song Jinyuan looks about sixteen or seventeen years old. She usually has a small mouth and a delicate pout, so she is very good at pleasing Mrs. Xiao.In addition, her compatriot brother Song Yaoshu is especially favored by Xiao Shi because Xiao Shi has no son under his knees, so she is also very happy with Xiao Shi.

At the moment, she is wearing a pair of pale green gold thread trimmed collar with stand-up collar, paired with a large lake silk lantern skirt embroidered with begonias on a white background, with a flying fairy bun wrapped around her head with crimson satin, which complements her beauty perfectly. A small pointy face became more and more delicate like a stamen, soft and lovely.

"Is that really the case? Mother, how about it?" Song Jinzhi raised his brows with joy, and hurriedly turned to ask Xiao Shi.

Jiuya looked at the past, and felt that Song Jinzhi had bright eyebrows, a small cherry mouth as pink as a peach, a melon-seeded face, and a ruby ​​inlaid on a plum blossom hairpin on the temples. The girl Song Jinyuan and Song Jinxia, ​​the seventh daughter of the prostitute next to Xiao's, are much more outstanding, she is a rare beauty, no wonder Chunmei and the others said that she is very picky about finding a husband's family, she really has some capital.

Xiao's expression was doting, she didn't look at the embroidery, she just looked at Song Jinzhi's pretty side face and smiled, then turned her head and smiled at the second aunt who was serving behind her, "The second aunt in our house is the best at embroidery." Why don't you ask Second Aunt to judge?"

Although Mrs. Zhao is the aunt in the mansion, she looks at least ten years older than Mrs. Xiao, and she is also poorly dressed. Her eyes are dull, and after listening to Mrs. Xiao asking her opinion, she said after a long while: "Five girls embroidered The products produced are naturally the best, where is there room for servants to discuss?"

Seeing her like that, Jiu Ya felt aggrieved.But there is no way, although she also gave birth to two daughters, but when the eldest girl Song Jinxiu was almost 20 years old, it was Xiao's decision to marry a man in his 40s to fill in the house. She had no money and no rights.The fourth girl, Song Jinzhen, even eloped with a foreigner, and this incident has always made Mrs. Zhao unable to hold her head up in the mansion.So Xiao Shi bullied her even more, and her life was worse than that of servants.

Hearing what the second aunt said, Song Jinxia, ​​the seventh girl next to her, curled her lips repeatedly, "Don't just pick up the nice ones, in my opinion, the embroidery is very ordinary. If the sister-in-law in the mansion is meticulous in sewing, any one of them is better than five." My sister's embroidery is very good. If my sister wants to use this kind of embroidery to show off that she wants to get married to the prince Zhanshi and the son of the Li family, I am afraid that she is not qualified."

Song Jinxia also looks charming and affectionate, but her words are terribly bitter, which is not directly proportional to her appearance.

Jin Zhi's face changed when he heard this, and he threw the embroidery in his hand at her face, "Snack guy, don't you want to see me? What's wrong with Zhan Shi's family, my marriage proposal prince? Are you jealous? Are you capable? You also let those generals and princes come to your house to propose marriage? If you don’t have the skills, you know how to make sarcastic remarks here, be careful that I will tear your mouth.”

Unprepared, Song Jinxia was smashed all over her head and face, but she was not easy to mess with. She covered her face and jumped up immediately. She copied a few plates and was about to smash them, but the second aunt She stopped, and she couldn't smash it out for a while, and she was furious, "I'm a snack, what are you? You're already a 17-year-old girl, and you're still arguing with each other, hurting your mother's feet." It’s good now, but it’s just a matter of Prince Zhan, a third-rank official, and it makes your tail stick to the sky? Don’t you know how much your mother’s old face asked your uncle to trust him to get on with him? Before we met, you start picking on Joe. Do you really think you are the young lady in the mansion? You don’t even look in the mirror, can you be a virtuous family to take a fancy to you? Bah!"

(End of this chapter)