In the last two times, Fan Chengga's family returned to the south from the capital, served their parents, and hosted a banquet for relatives and friends in Yangzhou because of the flower viewing party. The Yan government also received his post, so Lin Ruhai asked Zhang Wang's wife Hong and her daughter Lin Daiyu to go to the meeting together. Now that the single watch is on the day of the flower viewing party, Daiyu gets up early in the morning to take care of her makeup. Purple cuckoos and green grass comb their buns, and snow geese and green seedlings hold mirrors and serve water. A group of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law went in and out, serving clothes, reporting the weather, and inspecting things when they went out. When he was busy, he saw Hong smiling and walking in, and the two maids behind him each held a makeup box. Daiyu was about to get up, but Hong hurriedly took two steps and held it down, saying, "Just get yours." He smiled and asked: "I spent a whole night thinking yesterday, but I decided what to wear today?" The light blue background is naturally good-looking, and the embroidered white plum is also exquisite, but it is plain and light. Just wear it at home. Today is the first time you have been a guest since you came, so it doesn't matter if you are doubly luxurious. ”

Daiyu said: "A few days ago, my father asked me to make a few new pieces, and I still think all of them are good. In the end, I want to ask my aunt to come up with an idea. ”

Hong smiled: "But it's back again." Yesterday I said it's all good, just choose your favorite color. But thinking that those clothes were originally made according to your preferences, it is really difficult to separate one more beloved. Fortunately, our girl's character is standard, so I will choose it at will, and put it on for Master Lin to see, and I will definitely not be picky. He took the makeup box from the maid's hand and said to Daiyu: "These two hairpins are new styles this season, light and delicate, different from those in Beijing, and I don't know if they match your clothes." Wait a little longer and pick again. ”

So after dressing and changing clothes between laughter, Hong took Daiyu's hand and went to the main house of Tonghuayuan. In the house, Lin Ruhai and Zhang Wang had already had breakfast and were eating tea and chatting. Zhang Hui sat sideways under Zhang Wang, and accompanied him hand in hand. Seeing Hong and Lin Daiyu coming in, Zhang Hui hurriedly got up to salute. Here, the Hong family and Daiyu have also seen each other. Lin Ruhai saw Daiyu wearing a robe embroidered with plum blossoms and bamboo leaves on water blue satin, and a slender red plum on the white horse-faced pleated skirt underneath, which set off the delicate and elegant talent. He was happy in his heart, and smiled at Hong's family: "Sure enough, it has to be a younger brother and sister." He thanked Hong's with Daiyu, and then instructed Daiyu: "You only follow your aunt, and you can be as comfortable and generous as in other people's homes." Daiyu answered.

Here Zhang Wang asked Hong: "When will you go out?" Have lunch and dinner at Fan's house?"

Hong said: "There will be a while. Have breakfast before heading out. Lunch is available over there. Enjoying the lotus flowers and listening to the two classes of small plays, it has to be over, and only after the summer heat goes down can I get up from Fan's house. ”

Zhang Wang glanced at Lin Ruhai after hearing this, then nodded and smiled: "If it's really hot, it's too late, just bother his family and come back at night." I just want to pass a message, and I'll pick it up here. After thinking about it, he said, "Are you going by car?" and someone brought ice with them. But it's best not to do without. However, you can remove the first layer of the car curtain and leave only the outer layer of veil, which is both breathable and decent. ”

Hong said with a smile: "Listening to the uncle's words, it seems like my first time going out, so I instructed." I still don't know this? Naturally, it has already been settled. If you describe it more than once, it's like this, but it makes Uncle Lin worry in vain. Anyway, I don't bother to tell you more. Yu'er, come, come with me for breakfast. After that, he took Daiyu to the small hall next to him to eat.

Here, Zhang Wang could only smile at Lin Ruhai and said, "Cousin, when I saw it, she was so temperamental when she was at home. But outside, he is the most able to protect his younger siblings. He also said to Zhang Hui: "Send your mother and cousin to Fan's mansion in a while, and you must be careful on the way." It doesn't hurt to walk slowly, it's the same thing to be safe and have nothing else to do. ”

Zhang Hui bowed back. Zhang Wang looked at his clothes again, and saw that he was wearing a moon-white corrugated thick robe, with a blue ribbon around his waist, and said, "How do you tie this today? Although the color is mostly plain on hot days, in the end it is going to someone else's house." Let's go and change it. Zhang Hui really went to change a red silk belt, and the indigo tassel green jade pendant was also replaced with a beautiful carved gold toad with vermilion tassels. Zhang Wangfang nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "This is good, it matches your red collar." The Fan family is also a famous family in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is your Aunt Fan's uncle's family, so when you go to his house, you naturally have to be more happy and festive. ”

When they were young, Hong and Lin Daiyu finished breakfast, came over to sit down for a while, said a few words, and came outside to report that the carriage was ready, and the steward Lin Shan asked when he would get up and start on the doorstep outside the main courtyard. Hong took Daiyu to salute Lin Ruhai and Zhang Wang's brothers, and led a group of maids, grandmothers, daughters-in-law and servants to the second gate to board the car. Zhang Hui rode a horse and accompanied him. And there are Lin Shan, Shen Ping, Song Yi of the Lin Mansion, and the four stewards of the Zhang Mansion, Tu Yinshen, who investigated and took care of the front and back, and the small servants and servants went to the Fan Mansion in a group.

However, it was said that Hong took Daiyu to take a cuigai Yingluo car, and Hong said to Daiyu in the car: "According to your uncle, you should take a sedan chair this time." It's just that I've always been impatient with that, and I'm less than a year old, surrounded on all sides, half a little wind is impervious, who wants to take it in the summer? Now the curtain material of this car is newly changed at a glance, light and translucent, and refreshing and cool, just two or three people are not afraid to squeeze together, just suitable for summer ride. You see, but I'm right?"

Daiyu smiled: "What Auntie said, of course it is reasonable. I also feel cool and comfortable. Is it because of the rain in the morning?"

"It's nature. It's still the first rain in May? You only smell the breath of the wind, and at this point, the smell of water vapor is still six or seventy percent, which shows the skill. It's still in town. If you go to the countryside, take a walk on the woods, ridges, and rivers and bays after the rain in May and June, then it is called really fresh water. ”

Daiyu was a little surprised and asked, "Auntie has been to the countryside and seen rice fields and rivers?"

Hong said with a smile: "Why haven't you been there? There are also seven or eight granges at home, including mountain orchards, river bay fish ponds, and all of them. Usually in June and July, the big and small family, six out of ten stops, people have to send the old lady to the Zhuangzi to spend the summer, and for a few years they all look up to see that they will not come back until the Mid-Autumn Festival. Your uncle, and your cousin, when they were younger, also liked to live in the Zhuangzi, saying that they were more comfortable reading and writing than at home, but in fact they were less restrained in etiquette. Seeing that Daiyu was listening infatuately, her eyes showed yearning, she stroked her head with a smile, and said, "The girls and boys in the family are all looking forward to the wind in Zhuangzi." If Yu'er wants to go, tell your father then, just come with me this year. ”

Daiyu was first surprised when she heard this, and then thought of such a Yangzhou and her father, so she shook her head and said, "Auntie loves me." I rejoice too. It's just that my father has not been sick for a long time, and I have to ask my father about it. ”

Hong smiled: "It's okay. When I get home, I'll ask your uncle to help me ask. ”

For a while, I listened to the outside of the car and tapped on the wall panel, saying that Fan's Mansion was about to arrive. Hong and Daiyu sat up straight, inspecting their clothes and jewelry. Hong said to Daiyu again: "Your Aunt Fan is the most lively and unrestrained, and the old lady, wife, and grandmothers of the Ren family are also amiable. I haven't seen it at Governor Ding's mansion, but I can't be wrong with it. These young ladies should also be educated, and Yu'er is interested, so it's good to make friends. But if you are really impatient, or if you have suffered any grievances, don't just hold it in your stomach, come and tell me, I naturally have a point. As he spoke, he approached her and whispered, "Your cousin said before that the lotus flowers in Baoyang Lake and Hepu are blooming. I'll just remember it. If you don't enjoy the water lotus today, and the hour is early, we will ask him to charter two boats to go to the lake. By the way, there is also a one called 'Cui Pingju', your cousin said that although it is newly opened, the snacks and snacks are really not bad, especially the steamed buns with vegetarian three fresh fillings taste the best, he also specially brought a few cages to the house that time, and he wanted to call them all fresh; But when I ate it, I was so good that I could imagine what it was like when it came out of the cage. Let's swim in the lake, and by the way, we can also go to his house to eat, okay?"

When Lin Daiyu heard this, she couldn't help laughing, but she knew that the Hong family had no intention of coaxing and teasing, and she was really a jumper; I heard the axle transfer gradually stopping, and there was a sound of ushering in the arrival: it was the arrival of Fanfu. Fan Chengyan personally greeted him at the door. Zhang Hui saw it at a glance, was so busy that he got off the horse, and stepped forward to meet him in full clothes. Here, the steward introduced the car of the Lin Mansion from the main gate to the sedan hall, and the steward led the servant who followed the car out from the small house, and the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law in the hall went down the front and rear doors of eight mud and gold lacquered smoke screens, and then waited for Hong and Daiyu to get out of the car. Before she stood firmly underground, Daiyu heard someone next to her greet her with a smile and a grin, and only said, "Oh, it's coming!" I've been standing here since early this morning, and my feet are sore. It's good that you came, come and take a look at it for me, but it's not swollen?"

Daiyu looked up and saw that it was a lady in her thirties or forties, dressed not solemnly and elegantly, only dressed in a flesh-powdered silk placket and a pine-colored skirt, and the snow-green collar was embroidered with a jade lotus, lining out the apricot eyes with a smile and handsome eyebrows. Here, Hong smiled when he saw it, and pointed: "You just talk about it." Who doesn't know that you are a clever man, and you have the sharpest ears, and you only stand up and listen, and come out when you pick up the hour—and you will stand and wait for me for a long time? Or in front of other people's children, the old man is not ashamed, and he is not ashamed?" turned to Daiyu and said: "I don't agree, I recognize my godsister with this old skin monkey." If you just look at me, it's polite to call 'Aunt Fan'." ”

Daiyu had already known from Lin Ruhai that Zhang Wang and Gu Chong were on good terms, and Gu Chong's wife and the Hong family were even more affectionate, and before going out, the Hong family also said that this godsister Fan had many friendly and funny words and deeds. So he hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects, but asked Fan to help him up. Fan took her hand, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "This is your cousin's daughter, the daughter of the Hou family of Gusu Lin? No wonder you shouted that you suffered a loss when you recognized your relatives, and I was still upset for Ying'er. Only now do I know, let's talk about the few in my family, the characters in the world are compared!"

Hong nodded and said, "My children are naturally the best." You should have believed this. The two laughed at each other. Fan said to Daiyu again: "We are used to joking, don't be too troublesome, girl." And I'm also telling the truth, such a loving appearance, thanks to your father's willingness to let your aunt come out this time, otherwise, those of us who are old will continue to sit at the bottom of the well and boast. As he spoke, he saw that the servant woman had prepared three small carts in the hall, so he beckoned Hong and Daiyu to sit down, and said to Hong: "Your front feet are Ren Baishi's wife and girl, and the eldest sister-in-law led them in." I estimated that the time was about the same, so I told my sister-in-law that I was here to meet you. I didn't bother to go to the main hall of the inner courtyard for a while, and went directly to the back garden. My sister-in-law and they all love the water pavilion with a spacious and cool platform, and a lotus water chestnut in front of them is fragrant, and they all say that they will gather there and eat lunch there. He said to Daiyu again: "Yangzhou Mansion knows that the garden is the best of the old man Yan Zhenglin's house." My family is smaller, and it is still the house that my great-grandfather set up when he was in Yangzhou Mansion in the early days, and I gave it to my grandmother to marry. This time my uncle's family went back to live in the south, and it was only a few months to clean up, so it must be out of reach. It's just a place to go to gather relatives and friends, Miss Lin doesn't laugh at us to show off. But there is something to pick up, so you might as well say it, and it is also a pleasure to refer to it and tease it in detail. ”

Hong listened and said with a smile: "My sister is too busy. We are here to enjoy the flowers and eat, who will pick up the garden for you? And it is not your sister-in-law who moved back the exotic lotus? People are busy looking at it, who cares about your other houses, mountains, rocks, branches? ”

When Fan heard this, his eyes turned twice on Hong and Daiyu, and then he smiled and nodded, and when he saw that the three of them were all seated, and the maids and daughters-in-law who followed were in order, he ordered the servants to lead the car and go to the garden.