Red Mansion Jia Lan: Do you want to run away tonight to visit your relatives? Chapter 1: Sit quietly and think deeply while looking at embroidery paintings. The maid jokes about meeting a good match.
Chapter 1: Sit quietly and think deeply while looking at embroidery paintings. The maid jokes about meeting a good match.
Jia Lan looked at the sixth girl of the Sheng family and said quite intimately: "What a coincidence, my sister and I both have the word "lan" in their names."
The names of this era did not have as many bad names as in later generations. There would not be Zixuan and Zixuan, Zixuan and Zixuan fighting with each other. The name with the word "lan" in it would not be rustic or tacky.
Lan, elegant and graceful, independent and independent.
The elders named "Lan" to express their good wishes.
Minglan's originally numb eyes suddenly brightened a lot when they met Jialan's smile.
Especially the sachet in her hand, which constantly exuded bursts of medicinal fragrance, made her feel peaceful.
"Yes, what a coincidence." She looked at Jia Lan and showed a smile for the first time.
Jia Lan smiled back and murmured: "What a coincidence." After chatting for a while, Jia Lan said goodbye and left the Sheng Mansion.
The little girl from the Sheng family returned to her small side room and sat silently for a while. Suddenly she got up and took out a scroll from the box. On the table was an embroidery painting "Mrs. Li Guards Niangziguan", which said
This is the story of Princess Pingyang Zhao of the Tang Dynasty guarding Niangzi Pass.
Minglan stared blankly at the embroidery painting, with no sadness or joy in her eyes.
After a long while, she faintly said three words from her mouth: "Auntie, it's been eight years..."
"Girl..."
The little maid next to her looked at Minglan with worry.
"Don't worry, Xiaotao, I'm fine." Minglan quickly calmed down her expression, raised her head and said.
"No, girl, something must have happened to you." Xiao Tao looked a little naive, but her eyes were clear and no less clear than Minglan's. "Every time you take out this painting that my mother left for you, something must have happened!"<
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Minglan was speechless for a while, then she couldn't help but stretched out her fingers and gently stamped Xiaotao's forehead.
"You little fool, you can't just take some things at face value. I took out the paintings my mother left for me to look at and remember my mother. Does that mean I have something to worry about?"
"But, if you're fine, then..."
"Can't I just take the painting out and dust it off?"
The smile on Minglan's face immediately frightened Xiao Tao. She just felt that her girl was so strange today. She didn't look like she was sitting quietly by herself like in the past, but the surroundings were full of loneliness and sadness.<
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But Minglan's current appearance is definitely not happy.
It was too complicated, and Xiao Tao felt that her thoughts were stuck in a maze, and she couldn't get out no matter how she walked.
Her head gradually turned into a ball of mush. Suddenly she felt someone pinched her cheek, and she said "Ah". While caressing the painful cheek, she said dissatisfiedly: "Girl, I told you everything."
How many times have you pinched my face? Do you know what the girls in the house say about me? They say I have a big face!"
(Jia Baoyu:!!?)
Minglan laughed immediately after hearing this, and she couldn't stop laughing.
"Girl, you're still smiling!" Xiao Tao felt embarrassed and said, "If you pinch me like that, all my work for the day will be wasted!"
"What kind of nonsense?" Minglan noticed the maid's words and asked curiously, stopping her smile.
Xiaotao gave a demonstration, and Minglan laughed even more.
"Oh my god, what kind of skill are you practicing? It's just pouting your mouth!?"
"Girl, don't underestimate this method. The maid in the Fifth Miss Wei Ruixuan told me this, saying that this is the method from her hometown..."
Minglan was swaying with laughter: "The ancients also said that beauties are born by sleeping. You fool, you sleep all day long, aren't you absolutely beautiful?"
Xiaotao was stunned after hearing this: "Ah, this..."
After a long time, she hesitated and muttered: "Maybe I didn't sleep enough?"
Minglan widened her eyes and said speechlessly: "Didn't you sleep well enough? You slept on my bed at night, right? I didn't sleep at noon, but you did. You slept twice in one day, but my soft couch actually
Not good enough?
How about you start laying the floor tonight?"
"No, no, no!" Xiao Tao immediately begged for mercy.
The two were quarreling for a while, and Xiao Tao, who was a little slow, finally realized that Minglan was indeed much more cheerful now, and couldn't help but ask: "Girl, you smiled so much today, it seems like you are back to the way you were before!"
Having been with Minglan since she was a child, she knew how lively and laughing the original Minglan was.
Minglan slowly calmed down and asked Xiaotao: "Do you still remember the last words my mother-in-law said to me on the day she died?"
Xiao Tao was obviously startled, but soon she nodded with slightly red eyes.
Unconsciously, their thoughts returned to that day.
That day, the two little girls struggled to tuck the corner of the quilt for Aunt Wei on the couch, their faces were embarrassed and full of tears.
Minglan also fell into reminiscing. She said lightly: "My mother told me and told me to remember all my life: 'In everything, living is the best!'"
She looked at Xiao Tao: "Today, I listened to it again."
Xiaotao blinked and looked at Minglan in confusion.
"I heard the same words from my brother Jia's mouth again as my mother-in-law told me in the end."
There was a reverie in Minglan's eyes, but what came to mind more was Jialan's reassuring smile.
Xiaotao said "Oh": "It's that Brother Lan. What a coincidence. His name has the word "lan" in it, and so does your name..."
"It's indeed a coincidence..." Minglan nodded, and after a moment she realized what she was doing. Looking at Xiao Tao with a teasing look on her face, she shouted angrily: "You idiot, where did you think you were?!
I just met that Jia brother for the first time today!"
Minglan chewed the word "brother" heavily.
Xiao Tao covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Girl, you don't have to tell me off so quickly, right? Just now you called me brother, and in the blink of an eye, you became your brother?"
"What's wrong with my brother? He is obviously younger than me!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Xiao Tao responded with a smile, paused and said again: "Don't say it, girl, I think that brother from the Jia family is a really good match for you. I didn't hear that my ancestors also praised him so much, and even
Is it better than the young father-in-law?"
Minglan was almost angry, her eyes widened: "The old lady Xiaotao said so much about feelings, but you only understood this sentence?"
"Yeah!"
Xiao Tao's "I understand I'm proud" look instantly made Minglan lose her temper, but it brought back Minglan's memories.
That was what Old Mrs. Sheng said to her after Jia Lan left, and she dismissed the rest of the crowd. The general idea was that although Jia Lan's family background was high, in the final analysis, he was only the second son, and his talk about marriage was much better than that of his colleague Sheng Sheng.
The young master of the Duke of Qi, who has a special liking for Minglan in his studies, is much more suitable.
The Duke of Qi is one of the four princes and eight princes. In the past two generations, they have been passed down from a single lineage, and the population is not prosperous.
But it is extremely noble.
It's just because although the current Duke of Qi has been reduced to the second-class general in terms of rank, his legitimate wife is of great importance and is a princess.