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When the rain hits the plum blossom, there will be no sun for 45 days.
The continuous rain lasted for seven or eight days, making the whole Min family mansion covered with a light layer of sliminess.
Min Fangfei put down the needle and thread in his hand, leaving one hand free to rub his sour eyes. He closed his eyes and was silent for a moment. The beautiful sound of rain beating on plantains came from his ears.
She got up and came to the window, gently opened the window from the inside, and the spring wind mixed with moisture hit Min Fangfei's delicate cheeks in an instant.
Large clusters of plantain trees are planted in the yard, and the bright green leaves are more dazzling after the baptism of the plum rain, which is pleasing to the eyes.
"Girl, the first lady sent Pauline to deliver fruit to the girl, and people were waiting outside the door."
Min Fangfei's eldest servant girl, Wen Yuan, walked into the room with deft steps. When she saw her own girl standing at the window with a needle and thread on the couch, she couldn't help frowning: "The girl's voice is better. The doctor only told you to take care of yourself. Even the eldest wife didn't ask you to do these needlework. Why didn't she take the opportunity to have more rest?"
Min Fangfei folded her palms and gently rubbed them. A slight heat came from her palms, warming her cold heart in an instant.
"Please invite Pauline in."
Wenyuan wanted to persuade her again, so she had to swallow all her heartfelt words.
Not long after, a 15-year-old servant girl came in. She had a long face, wore a lacy single jacket with finches of gold, and a red pomegranate skirt underneath. When she walked, the silver hairpins in her hair buns jingled.
Baolian has a pleasant smile. Before she can speak, the smile has been passed on. When she saw Min Fangfei, she leaned over and said, "Please give my regards to the fourth girl."
Min Fangfei hurriedly asks Wen Yuan to help her up, and smiles: "You don't do such errands on weekdays. What brings you here today?"
As she beckoned Pauline to sit down, she ordered the girls outside to come in and pour tea.
Baolian quickly waved her hand: "Where can I have the time to eat tea? I'll use it next time when I have time to visit the girl!"
Bao Lian opened the food box she brought to Min Fangfei and said, "These are some fresh fruits that Chuang Tzu had just come in for filial piety. The first lady asked someone to send them to the fourth girl. I was coming to thank the girl, so I took the job."
Four delicate sweet white porcelain small fruit plates, the most attractive one is the bright red strawberry in the middle.
Although there are only seven or eight of them, they are all as big as baby's fists, and they are still red all over.
Wenyuan hurries to take the fruit plate joyfully and goes out to find another container to spare these sweet white porcelain plates for the first lady.
For a moment, only Pauline and Min Fangfei were left in the room.
"Thank you for the prescription given by the fourth girl. According to what the girl said, I twisted the banana juice to decoct the medicine. It didn't work many times, and my brother's tooth became swollen." Baolian is the son of the Min family. Her mother left early, leaving only one brother to live with her grandparents.
Pauline thinks her younger brother is more important than her own life. The child is angry from nowhere. Not long ago, she got swollen cheeks. Half of her face is swollen like a big steamed bun, and she can't even drink water.
The child cried in pain, and Baolian's grandparents were so worried that they had only one life left. I had no choice but to ask someone to come in and beg for Baolian.
On that day Min Fangfei happened to go to the eldest wife to ask for help. Knowing Baolian's difficulties, he quietly ordered someone to uproot a little of the plantain roots in his own hospital, and asked the population to describe the treatment.
Not to mention, this local method is really effective.
Baolian was grateful, so she wrote Min Fangfei under the guise of delivering things.
Pauline's eyes fell on the crochet basket. Inside was a pair of unfinished embroidered shoes. It seems that the color is not the style of young girls, but the material is fine, which is makeup brocade. Although it is only palm size, it is valuable.
Such a good thing has always been available only to decent masters. The fourth girl is the daughter of a commoner who cannot be spoiled by the Min family
It is not easy to get such a piece of material, even if it is only for making shoe uppers.
Min Fangfei saw Bao Lian's eyes turning on the basket intentionally or unintentionally, and smiled: "When the year was coming, my elder sister asked me to embroider a new handkerchief for her. She gave me these makeup brocades."
Pauline was very embarrassed and hurriedly covered up: "I heard that the old lady is going to celebrate her birthday this time, and I'm going to give her a golden Buddha! It is also the filial piety of the big girl. She took out all the gold ingots she had saved from childhood to make people melt them, and cast them into a seven inch high golden Buddha. She invited a famous master in Yangzhou City to carve them. Even the big lady exaggerated the purity of the girl when she heard about this. "
Min Fangfei still smiled: "It should be so, otherwise, why does the old lady like the big sister the most? No one is as delicate as the big sister in terms of sincerity."
Baolian hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice, "I heard that the second girl is also going to make a needle and thread to celebrate the old lady's birthday. But I don't know what to do. The fourth girl knows the temper of the second girl. We don't need to steal the limelight from her. If we have time, I would advise you to find another birthday gift."
Min Fangfei was stunned.
Fanghua, the eldest daughter of the Min family, is the daughter of the eldest wife. Although she is a legitimate daughter, she is also kind to several sisters and has a good face. The second girl, Fang Rui, was born from concubines of the second master. On the fifteenth day of this year, she has not settled down yet. She has a flamboyant temper and dare not be praised.
The third girl, Fang Ling, followed her father, the third master of the Min family. Last year, for some reason, the third master of the Min family suddenly sent someone to send his daughter back to Fuchun's old house. Without saying why, he threw people in front of the old lady and never looked after her again.
Third Uncle Min is not the natural son of the old lady. The old lady is not warm or angry with Min Fangling.
And she, Min Fangfei
Although she was born from concubines like the second girl, her aunt was not allowed to be spoiled. She was just a little concubine of the elder master who was neglected and had a low status in the Min family.
Baolian is kind. If the birthday gift given by the second girl is also embroidered shoes, the fourth girl will not get any benefit if two people collide.
Min Fangfei looked at the half embroidered upper in the basket and sighed in his heart, "It's a pity that the big sister sent this good satin."
Baolian breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing that it was late, Pauline got up and said goodbye.
After she left, Fangfei sat in front of the window for a moment, while Wenyuan waited on her not far away. Seeing that her girl was always silent, she dared not disturb her.
It was so easy that the little girl's laughing voice came from the yard outside, which broke the peace of the house.
"I remember that you and Wenxiu in the second sister's room were very close?"
Wenyuan hurriedly said, "Wenxiu is my aunt's cousin. We went to the house to serve her in the same year and month."
"In that case, you should go quietly to inquire about what the Second Sister has prepared for the old lady this year?"
Wenyuan did not dare to hesitate, and went out to Min Fangrui's Zizhuyuan.
Wenyuan came back before dinner.
When Wenyuan saw Fangfei, she repeatedly explained: "The little girl there was dirty. She stole the earrings of the second girl and was caught dead. The second girl asked her wives to tie up the little girl in the yard. I was beating her flesh and skin when I went there. The maid thought this was a bad thing, so she wandered outside the Purple Bamboo Yard for a while. When there was no movement inside, she secretly went to find Wenxiu."
Min Fangfei didn't expect such a thing to happen.
"How is the little girl now?"
Wen Yuan sighed, "What else can I do? The girl doesn't know that the women in the Zizhu Yard are very savage and always kill."
Min Fangfei remembered that last autumn, Wenyuan and some girls looked at the blooming chrysanthemums in the flower bed, and they wanted to collect some to decorate the house. Who wanted Min Fangrui's wife to see them? They said that the second girl was ready to invite someone to enjoy the flowers, and no one was allowed to touch them.
At the beginning, Wen Yuan explained to her that the more amiable she was, the more obstinate and rude those women became, and even moved directly.
Wenyuan was caught with a three inch blood print on the back of her hand.
I have kept it for a whole winter and still have scars of different depths.
Min Fangfei's eyes fell on Wen Yuan's delicate hand.
Wenyuan subconsciously covers her hands. When she comes to her senses, she chuckles and says, "You don't need to care about me. It's no longer painful."
"After all, as a girl, I have no ability to protect you."
"How can you say such words, girl? If you want me to tell you, you are the girl with the best temper in the Min family. Wenxiu also complained to me quietly that she didn't want to wait on the second girl for a day."
Wenyuan also felt sad when she remembered her cousin's complaint: "But what can I do? Unless the second girl gets married, Wenxiu is released to marry herself. Oh, yes... I have asked you to ask me something."
Wen Yuan remembered the serious matter and quickly attached himself to Min Fangfei's ear: "The second girl was angry when she heard that the eldest girl had beaten a golden Buddha. She had to fight for the height, so she begged her aunt Shuang to take out the gold and make a better Buddha statue than the eldest girl."
Wenyuan said this and couldn't help laughing: "Girl, do you think these two girls are crazy? How dare she compete with the big girl?"
Min Fangfei thought of the rumors in recent days.
At the time of the three-year general election in the palace, the Min family is one of the best in Fuchun.
There was a Zhaoyi in the time of Taizu, who was only inferior to the four concubines.
To this day, when people in Fuchun talk about the Min Family, they still have to mention how spectacular it was to visit relatives in Zhaoyi.
Min Zhaoyi has been dead for a long time, but the Min family must send her daughter to the talent show every election.
Unfortunately
I don't know whether the daughter of the Min family failed to win or whether the monarchs of past dynasties were hindered by political purposes, the young ladies of the Min family had to lose the election.
According to Min Fangfei, this year is very different.
Because the eldest master of Min Family, Min Chaozong, Min Fangfei's father, is expected to serve as the minister of the household.
In this way, it is reasonable for the Min family to become a concubine.
But the question that followed was, which of the four young ladies of the Min family, two of them, would be safer to send to the palace?
