Hengwu Garden.
The eldest maid, Ying'er, held a cup of medicinal soup and silently bypassed the screen. When she got closer, she saw Aunt Xue lying on her back on the bed, as if she was sleeping soundly, and looked at Xue Baochai, who was beside her in embarrassment.
Xue Baochai pointed to the short table at the head of the bed, and whispered, "Leave it for now, I'll wait for my mother later."
Ying'er put the small pottery bowl on the low table, pinched her earlobes with both hands, and said, "This medicine cannot be returned to the oven, and the girl must remember that it should not be delayed for a long time."
After Xue Baochai responded silently, she quietly backed out.
About half an hour later, Xue Baochai got up and tried the temperature of the soup, then took off the cool towel from her mother's forehead, rubbed it in the copper basin a few times, wrung it dry and put it back in its original place.
The cold touch suddenly made Aunt Xue let out a small dream.
"Mother."
Xue Baochai pushed her shoulder and called softly, "Get up and drink the medicine."
Only then did Aunt Xue open her eyes. She glanced at her daughter first, and then frowned, "What time is it?"
"It's just past [ten in the morning]."
Xue Baochai picked up the medicinal soup and scooped some of it into his mouth first. The person who touched it was really lukewarm, so he held the bottom of the spoon with his hand and brought it to his mother's mouth.
When Aunt Xue saw this, she first supported the bed board and half stood up, then lowered her head to meet the spoon.
Seeing how hard she was getting up, two lumps of snow were squeezed out from under the quilt. Xue Baochai could not help but mutter while serving, "It's true, Mom, what the weather is all about. You don't even want to add clothes."
When Aunt Xue heard this, she avoided the spoon, frowning and sighing: "How many days can I wear it at my age? It's you, who is so quiet all day, no matter how good the color is, How many points can fall into the eyes?"
"What did Mom say!"
Xue Baochai shoved the spoon in it, and said angrily, "I only want to cover my body to keep out the cold, so I must not wear it for anyone to see!"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.
After coming back from Mrs. Wang yesterday, my mother seemed to have more 'weird words', and she became inexplicably hot at night.
Although the doctor looked at it and said it was nothing serious.
But there is still something strange about such an inexplicable illness.
However, although Xue Baochai was suspicious, he still chatted with his mother calmly. When she finished the bowl of medicinal soup, and wiped the stains off the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, she suppressed her smile.
"Mother."
Holding Aunt Xue's wrist, she said sternly, "Don't you hide something on your mind?"
"I… "
"Did my aunt tell you something?"
"This… "
"Is it related to Brother Bao?"
After asking three times in a row, the more she asked, the more detailed she became. Aunt Xue couldn't hide her knowledge, so she had to tell the words of the two sisters in bed-night conversation the night before.
"Whatever is as short as one or two years, and as long as three or five years."
At the end of the day, she couldn't hide the sadness between her brows and eyes: "It's a light thing to say, but you are eighteen after the new year, but how can you delay it?"
Being a mother is just worrying, but Xue Baochai's heart is cold.
How smart is she
Just hearing it, I guessed that Mrs. Wang was probably because her daughter was pregnant with a dragon seed, and she felt that her identity was different from before, so she started to repeat it again.
If the imperial concubine in the palace really gave birth to a prince, I am afraid that the 'golden and jade's good fate' and the 'mushi former alliance' will all end without a problem!
The most hateful thing is that, at this point, Mrs. Wang has not forgotten the misfortune, and the accusation was all because of Lin Daiyu's interference, which delayed the fate of the two.
"It turned out to be for this."
His left hand, which was hidden in his sleeve, secretly clenched his innocence, but Xue Baochai still had a smile on his face, and said indifferently, "Auntie is just talking casually, but Mommy is serious!"
"In my opinion, instead of worrying about whether or not you have any of these, you might as well discuss with your aunt and see how Xue Tao and their family should be dealt with. Taking advantage of the happiness of Empress De Concubine, the Zhen family must not dare to refute it. Aunt's face!"
What she understated was that she didn't want her mother to turn against Madam Wang because of this.
Although the Xue family was able to gain a firm foothold in Zhili after marrying the Minister of Officials, Aunt Xue's attachment to Mrs. Wang in the past two years has increased rather than decreased.
Now that the overall situation is undecided, why bother to let their sisters make trouble first
A few words to appease Aunt Xue, just as Daoxiang Village sent someone to invite him, Xue Baochai escaped from his mother.
Although he enjoyed the snowy scenery along the way, Xue Baochai still had a fire in his heart when he arrived at Daoxiang Village.
By chance, as soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw Xue Baoqin in the corridor, talking to Baoyu, she gritted her silver teeth, stepped forward and dragged her cousin under the eaves, and scolded her face to face: "Don't forget that you are here in the capital. To be married, what kind of style is this pulling and pulling?"
"Isn't my sister jealous?"
Baoqin stuck out her tongue playfully. Seeing her sister still had a cold face, she had to stand up properly and pouted, "It's the Mei family that I inquired about. Brother Bao promised to be good at the mother. Help me to say a few words in front of me, who knows that as soon as I enter the palace, I will forget it."
Hearing this, Xue Baochai immediately blurted out: "He is busy with other affairs, so it is inevitable that he will forget it for a while. What else can we do besides worrying about it?"
It happened that Jia Baoyu saw Sister Bao's cold face, as if she was scolding Baoqin, so she came over to persuade a few words, and suddenly stopped embarrassed after hearing this.
In my heart, Daobao sister has always been a kind person, how can I arrange mine today
Could it be that I offended her
After thinking about it, he didn't remember anything wrong. Just because he wanted to ask directly, suddenly a flower appeared in front of him, but it turned out to be a small hand as white as jade, which was raised to the tip of his nose and swayed.
"Get back to your senses!"
At the same time, Lin Daiyu said sourly in her ear: "The dead fish's eyeballs are almost embedded in it!"
Only then did Jia Baoyu realize that he was just thinking about the reason, but he was staring at Baochai and Baoqin in a daze.
He blushed at the moment, he wanted to say a few words, but he didn't want to spread Xue Baochai's gossip, so he said to him: "Where is the second sister? Didn't you come to the garden after a while? Why has it been so long? Still no movement?"
"Hey~"
Lin Daiyu sneered, and said disdainfully, "You have been touted for more than half a day before your uncle's character has been written. Now the second sister has actually sealed her life, and those servants in your family who are used to stepping on highs and stepping on lows, Can you let her go?"
After a few words, Jia Baoyu was speechless again, and finally he could only say that he would personally invite the second sister over, and escaped from Daoxiang Village in embarrassment.
When he was outside the gate, he looked back at the house shrouded in fine snow, and couldn't help but sighed and muttered, "What happened to these one or two?"
Thanks to book friends 'Su Huanhuan 12, Change Your Mood, Aheng 520, Brother Xi Aikunkun' for the reward.