At dinner, the sun was still shining thousands of miles above. Lishu was fed two bowls of mung bean soup in the room. There were three dishes and one soup on the table, all of which were very simple. A plate of fried shrimps with leeks, a plate of tofu with shrimp oil, a plate of fried shredded pork with cauliflower, and an egg soup. Then there is the braised pig ears and mung bean soup made by Mr. Fu, which tastes pretty good.
Lishu had been going to Wusun for many years, but she couldn't get used to eating mutton, and she still missed the taste of her hometown. Jiujiang and Macheng are not far apart. They have similar tastes and both eat river delicacies, so she ate these few side dishes with gusto.
Mrs. Fu usually doesn't eat much, but now seeing her daughter like this, she also ate an extra bowl, and the remaining portion was divided between Danhong and Danqing.
After dinner, Mrs. Fu gave Lishu a bath with her own hands. Lishu suddenly became smaller and more dependent on her mother. She didn't want anything but to be with her mother.
"It's very hot, baby." Little Fu couldn't help but push her daughter away.
When Lishu saw the sweat on Little Fu's forehead, she moved away slightly and picked up the round fan beside her to fan her mother: "I'll fan the sweat away for my mother."
Little Fu was very moved. She was born as a commoner and was an unexpected child. Her biological mother, Aunt Li, was originally her father's first-in-law. The reason why her aunt kept her was because she had an honest temper, average appearance, and was easy to handle when having children. This was a decoration to prevent others from saying she was jealous.
Every time Aunt Li finished serving her, she would be stared at by her aunt and take a bowl of anti-child medicine.
But a wise man will always make mistakes. One year, his aunt's mother was sick, so she went back to attend to her illness. Aunt Li stayed with her for a few days, and she became pregnant with little Fu without taking any medicine to avoid having a baby.
Aunt Li was very frightened. She jumped up and down in the yard, trying to jump off the baby. Her grandmother, Mrs. Fu, found out. She learned that she was afraid of her mistress, so she kept her in her house, and little Fu was born. .
Indeed, when she grew up, her aunt did not treat her harshly, but also made her well-educated, but she was not allowed to write poetry and sing, and she was not allowed to participate in literary gatherings. Aunt Li served her aunt even more diligently. She was obviously the same age as her aunt, but she looked more than twenty years older than her.
When it came time to choose a match, the aunt revealed her true colors. She said that she was slender and a commoner, and ordinary officials would look down on her, so she specially selected a child from a poor family, saying that she would not dislike her as a commoner.
Little Mrs. Fu sometimes finds it funny. Her father was an editor of the Hanlin Academy back then, and Zhan Shifu praised his good deeds. He was a first-class official, so how could he not be worthy of being a son of an official? The family we were talking about was not even a small landowner, and the family was in decline. My aunt even said that with fewer people in the family, there would be less things to do. .
I also don’t want to think about a family with no support and a poor family background. He himself is still a scholar. There is no one to support or care for him in the officialdom. Moreover, although this person has a good appearance, his mother thinks that he has taken advantage of you. The appearance of the little concubine made Mr. Fu feel that the marriage was a knot in her throat.
Even if you get married, you still have to be angry with your mother-in-law. The husband may not be able to stand out, and he may have to fill in all the dowry. The Fu family has gained a clear name that does not depend on the powerful. The aunt's mother promised to give her a dowry of sixty-six thousand dollars, and also made her virtuous name spread far and wide, but she got nothing?
Just when she was desperate, Mrs. Liu took a fancy to herself and asked her to continue her relationship.
Of course, the aunt was very reluctant. The Liu family was a wealthy family and had a higher status than the Fu family. The Fu family was originally far inferior to the Liu family, but Mrs. Liu heard that her eldest sister was a good match for a man, and the Liu family had few heirs. That's why I married into the family.
Even if it is a continuation of the relationship, the aunt still feels that she is not worthy.
She was even afraid that she would take possession of her eldest sister's dowry, because the village and the fields where her eldest sister was dowed were both fertile lands, and the dowry shop included a large pawn shop, which she was reluctant to give to herself. Therefore, although she had sixty-six The dowry, but there are not many acres of land, only twenty acres of paddy fields, and a shop is also very small, and even twenty tons of it is an inflated amount. It looks like high-quality silk and satin inside, but it is the inventory of the government, accumulated for many years, and the appearance is just glamorous. .
In fact, the money in the box was less than five hundred taels. The best moment in Xiao Fu's life was the year after she got married. She won her husband's heart and gave birth to a daughter.
Now that my daughter is still so young, she knows how to be filial to her, and she doesn't know how happy she is.
"Mom is not hot. Is the baby hot? Mom will fan you?" Mrs. Fu couldn't bear her daughter's hard work.
Li Shu smiled and said, "No, I want to fan my mother."
The year she married Wusun, the climate on the grassland was not good, the wind and sand could almost blow people away, and sometimes it was so hot that people couldn't breathe. Also, Princess Pingning married someone who was quite old. The princess was afraid, so she often pretended to be sick and refused to serve, so she sent them away. Lishu was almost exhausted from dealing with her there.
It is so comfortable to spend time with my mother quietly now.
The child was so sleepy that Lishu didn't know when she woke up, but she saw her mother making incense.
Little Fu was born meticulous and intelligent. When she was at home, her aunt only allowed her to read "Female Commandments" and "Female Virtues" and not even the Book of Songs. She was born to be able to draw with a brush, and she mostly painted "Twenty-Four Filial Piety" and "Biography of Women". The figures made my father and aunt happy, and I was very cautious in private. I would often paint other paintings and then burn them to ashes that day.
She also learned how to make incense secretly. The rules at home were very strict, but her aunt still did a good job to save her face. Many spices and incense tablets were given to her. She found the right opportunity to make incense recipes. After marrying into the Liu family, she became better at making incense powder.
This kind of fragrant powder can not only prevent sweat and remove odor, but also add rouge. Rub this reddish fragrant powder all over your body. In summer, you often wear tulle, and your pale pink skin will be faintly reflected, making you look very charming.
Bai Juyi once said: "The red lips are even and the fingers are pink and sweaty."
This is an ancient incense from the Tang Dynasty, and the making of incense by Xiao Fu is naturally related to fighting for favor. When she saw Li Shu rubbing her eyes on the bed, she quickly smiled and asked Dan Hong and Dan Qing to wash her up.
Bing was late at noon today, and Danhong complained, but little Fu was not as angry as yesterday, and said: "I'm afraid it may be a temporary inconvenience to the eldest lady, so you are not allowed to cause trouble."
Lishu clearly saw that Mr. Fu was very angry because of Bing yesterday, but today it was normal. She always felt that Mr. Fu was brewing something.
When it was time for dinner, little Mrs. Fu took a bath early and rubbed the fragrant powder she made today on her body. She said to herself: "Are you hungry? Let's go to your aunt's place first. Without ice, our mother and daughter can't survive the night. ah."
When going outside, she had to change her clothes. Li Shu still wore a bellyband, but she wore a double-breasted silk coat and a rippled skirt on her lower body.
Li Shu thought to herself that she was reborn smaller, and indeed she had no shame at all. It was still very cool to wear a bellyband in the room.
I was worried about wearing a bellyband when I first woke up, but now I feel better and feel hot when I put on clothes. Little Fu said apologetically: "My dear, please bear with me for a while, okay?"
Li Shu nodded heavily: "I listen to my mother."
"Okay, Mom will take you out." Little Fu was very pleased.
This was the first time Li Shu came out after her rebirth. The woman guarding the door outside was also surprised when she saw this: "Second Madam, are you going out?"
No wonder the mother-in-law was surprised, since Mr. Fu came to Jiujiang for two years, he has almost lived in seclusion.
Little Fu nodded: "Yes, I'll go to the eldest lady's place to have a look."
Mrs. Fu lives in the east courtyard, and Aunt Su and Aunt Ding share a row house. From the west courtyard to the east courtyard, you pass by Aunt Su and Aunt Ding. Aunt Su was in her thirties and had a good figure. She was coming out to enjoy the cool air at the door. Li Shu saw that Aunt Su was getting slightly fatter and knew that she also won her father's heart.
Originally, Aunt Su was an embroiderer bought from the south. Because of her good skills, she became Liu Chengxu's mistress.
Aunt Su and Mrs. Liu have a very good relationship and are good at childbirth. Although they are only aunts, they are quite important. Even Mrs. Fu was very polite to her when she came in. Of course Aunt Su was also very fawning to Mrs. Fu.
Furthermore, Aunt Ding is only pretty in appearance, but she is the youngest daughter of the local county magistrate in Macheng. Before her father retired from office, her mother took her to visit the Liu family.
Old Mrs. Liu had some contacts with the county magistrate, and Mrs. Liu heard that Mrs. Ding was a good-looking person, so in order to take care of her old friend, she also took in Aunt Ding for her second son.
Aunt Ding entered the family a year before little Fu. Lishu had heard people say that the Ding family was stupid and that if she had been a year later, she might have been the first wife.
But Aunt Ding doesn't seem to be very favored. When she has the most power, she is usually the housekeeper, unable to catch up with others.
I only heard that she had a decent temperament and was a very wise person. Aunt Su was out enjoying the cool air, but she kept the door closed, which seemed like a strict boudoir.
Aunt Su was also very surprised to see Mr. Fu. She picked up a melon and ate it, and then said to the maid next to her: "The sun is really rising in the west, how can she go out?"
"Auntie, don't worry about her. Since the eldest lady came back, the situation of these two ladies has been very worrying." The maid curled her lips.
Aunt Su rose from being a slave to being a aunt, and she also gave birth to two sons and a daughter. She was no ordinary person. When little Fu came in, Aunt Ding was a little doting on her at first, but later she was almost the only one doting on little Fu.
She didn't even see the master for almost two years. Later, Mrs. Fu came back, and Mrs. Fu took a back seat from then on. Only those like them could successfully regain their favor.
Looking at little Fu's appearance now, she always felt that something was unusual.
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Little Mrs. Fu walked up the steps with her skirt in hand. At this time, she was already dripping with sweat. Under the setting sun, the red and pink sweat was stained through the white gauze. Not to mention the man, even Li Shu felt that her mother was so beautiful. .
A family was having a meal in the house. The man sitting at the head table was tall and tall, with long eyebrows. It was hard for anyone to mix the heroic and the elegant. Next to him was a woman in her mid-twenties, described as He is frugal, not even a single complicated flower is worn on his body, and his hair is not decorated with pearls and jade, only a flower-wrapped hairpin on his temple.
There was also a young man and a little girl sitting at the bottom, and there were quite a lot of dishes on the table.
The man was about to pick up his chopsticks when he saw someone outside saying, "Madam, the second lady is here with the third girl. She said she has something to ask you."
A trace of embarrassment flashed across the woman's face, but she still smiled and said, "Yuping, please invite them in. I'll bring you two more sets of dishes and chopsticks."
Yuping snorted coldly in her heart. She was Fu's eldest girl, so of course she knew that little Fu was a weasel paying New Year greetings to a chicken, so she was uneasy and kind-hearted. Just like Little Fu's biological mother, Aunt Li, who looked honest and ordinary, but dared not to take the medicine to avoid children in private?
A concubine of the young Fu family took advantage of the fact that her appearance was somewhat similar to that of his wife, so she forced herself into the house and assumed the identity of the principal wife.
A fake is a fake. Let her know who the master is better to today.
