Chapter 017: Horse Taming
Xie Fuya sent a piece of fabric to Sister Min in the big house to make new clothes, and the eldest grandmother Wen returned a double-sided embroidered cat play butterfly fan.
The cat on the fan is plush and lifelike! Xie Fuya is a cat lover, and she likes this fan very much.
After Cai Yurong got the fabric, she hurriedly recruited the tailor of Yunzhi Building to make clothes for herself, and did not forget to show off the fabric she got from Xie Fuya to Cai Yuzhen, the eldest girl in the big room, and Cai Yufeng, the third girl in the fifth room.
The eldest girl Cai Yuzhen didn't say anything after she looked at the fabric and praised it, and the third girl Cai Yufeng just smiled and said that these two pieces of fabric were suitable for Cai Yurong, and she didn't say anything about it. Cai Yurong, who was waiting for her cousin's eyes to be red and sour, couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but she thought that her cousin must be jealous of herself, but she didn't show it.
When the old lady Chen learned of this, she called the eldest lady and said a few words. It's nothing more than the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, if the girls in the house wear new clothes, they all wear new clothes, and there is no reason for one to wear new and the other two to wear old, so wouldn't it cause people to gossip.
The eldest lady should say that the new summer clothes ordered in late May had just been delivered two days ago, and she had planned to let the three girls wear the newly made summer clothes to attend the Queen Mother's birthday banquet. Thinking that the girl Rong was happy with the new fabric, she cut new clothes. Moreover, Cai Yurong's tailoring money was taken out of her own private money by the second wife, and she did not go to the public account.
The old lady doesn't care who pays for the new clothes, anyway, the girl in one room has made new clothes, and her granddaughter Cai Yufeng must also make a set!
The eldest lady did not want to be entangled with the old lady, so she immediately called the tailor of the Golden Hazel Pavilion to come over and mend the three girls in new clothes, and the old lady was satisfied.
When Xie Fuya heard about this, she just hooked her lips and snorted.
Old Chen's asking the eldest lady to mend Cai Yufeng's new clothes is of course because he loves his granddaughter, if he thinks about it deeply, he is not provoking the relationship between the big house and the second room!
However, the more the rooms in Chengyibo's mansion fought with each other, the more Xie Fuya's heart was broken, and it was not in vain that she gave two pieces of good material to the white-eyed wolf, which played a role.
Luo Changshou, who was sent to the Horse Mansion by Luo's mother to be a servant of Xie Zhuo, sent a letter, and Xie Fuya frowned after reading it carefully.
Luo's mother was very sloppy, and sent her younger brother Luo Changshou to the Horse Mansion until the uncle Xie Zuo returned to the house, and personally brought Xie Fuya's words, and then returned to Zhuangzi after Xie Zuo was willing to leave people.
Luo Changshou said in the letter: Xie Zhuo didn't think much about his sister giving him a little girl, and still went out early and returned late all day to play with several gentlemen in the mansion of the nobles in Beijing. The day before yesterday, Xie Zhuo and the gang of gentlemen played a pot to gamble on the Jinghe boat, and happened to meet the fourth master of the Liang Wangfu and the prince of Lu Guogong, and as a result, Cheng Song, the prince of Lu Guogong, won the lottery and won the lottery. Princess Anyang asked Xie Zhuo for an errand to supervise the work from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but Xie Zhuo didn't really want to do it, and he refused to take the errand for a long time.
Xie Fuya's mind turned rapidly: There was never a time when the various factions and parties in the court were separated, and there was never a group of harmonious people! Everyone wanted to fight for more interests for their own faction, and often trampled on each other, or formed a temporary alliance to attack one faction. The communication between the provinces is often similar to that of the court, and the close and distant ones are somewhat talked.
When the prince of Lu Guogong and the concubine of King Liang traveled together, were they good friends, or did they travel together ordinarily? If they were friends, did it mean that Lu Guogong was from King Liang's uncle's side? When the prince of the previous generation was deposed and King Liang ascended the throne, she was lingering on the sickbed, and the Cai family hid everything from her, and she was completely unaware of the changes in the situation outside!
However, Cheng Song's life was short-lived, he went to Xiguan with the army in October this year to expel Hu Lu, and at the end of December came the news that he had been trapped in the snow-capped mountains by the Hu people's scheme......
She doesn't care what Cheng Song is, whether her brother succeeds or not is the current big thing!
Recalling the scene on August 15, after his death in the previous life, his brother Xie Zhuo came to the door of Chengyibo's Mansion with a double rabbit lantern to scold, Xie Fuya was a little sour. Although this brother is a little squirming, he is very protective of her and her sister Xie Fuqing. Especially for her sister, such a willful and unruly gentleman, she just giggled and said, "Sister, how can my brother-in-law stand the temperament of this mother-in-law."
Xie Fuya decided to go to her brother Xie Zuo to have a good "chat"! The big deal was that he had answered the errand, so she found a few useful people to assist Xie Zhuo, and pretended to see the progress of the repair in three or five days! This is much better than Xie Zhuo doing the wrong thing in a confused way!
With a certain mind, Xie Fuya ordered the maidservant girl Ruyi to ask the boy who sent the letter: Luo Changshou can say where Xie Zhuo is going to play today?
Soon Ruyi came back after asking, "Back to grandma, the kid who sent the letter said that Luo Changshou told him where Uncle Zhuo had gone today, and said that he was going to the western suburbs to race horses with others." ”
Western Suburbs Horse Race? Xie Fuya got up and said: "Like a poem, change clothes!"
"Grandma, this is ......" Rushi asked suspiciously while stepping forward to serve, "Grandma, is this going to find Uncle Zhuo?"
"Yes. Sitting in front of the vanity mirror, Shefuya commanded, "Tie your hair up simply, and then bring my riding clothes." ”
Rushi turned around and told Ruyi where to put the costume, and then quickly put Xie Fuya's hair.
There is a horse garden in the western suburbs, where many noble mansions in Beijing keep good horses for horse racing or polo.
The people of the Great Wei Dynasty were relatively open, and the restraints on women were not very strict, and there were not a few noblewomen who could ride horses and play polo. At the age of eleven, she learned to ride a horse and played a few shots of polo. Because of her weak health, Princess Anyang was afraid that something would happen, so she didn't let her play polo anymore, but her riding skills have never been wasted.
After packing up, Xie Fuya was about to go out, when a girl shouted "Mrs. Fifth is here" outside.
Why did the fifth lady come over at this time? Xie Fuya furrowed her brows slightly.
"Ouch, it's not the right time for me to come, Brother Shan's daughter-in-law is going out?" The fifth lady was invited into the house, and was stunned for a moment when she saw Xie Fuya dressed neatly.
Xie Fu Yafu bowed and said with a light smile: "Fifth Aunt is here, but there is something wrong?"
The fifth wife looked at Xie Fuya, and secretly regretted in her heart that she didn't tell this daughter-in-law to her son in front of the second room!
"Brother Shan's daughter-in-law, the errand on the side of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that I told you about before...... Fifth Lady looked at Xie Fuya tentatively, "I heard that the Ministry of Industry has begun to recruit craftsmen, and I'm afraid that the errand in charge of this matter has also been decided, right?"
Xie Fuya was in a hurry to find Xie Zhuo just for this matter of supervision, and when she saw the fifth lady's hopeful look, she was annoyed!
"Fifth aunt, don't worry, I will naturally tell you if I have news. Xie Fuya said, "Now I have something to go out, so I can't talk more with my fifth aunt." ”
With that, Xie Fuya walked out of the house.
The host is going out, and the fifth wife, a guest, is naturally not good to stay in someone's house and not leave. Even though he secretly scolded Xie Fuya in his heart for having no elders in his eyes, he still asked Xie Fuya where he was going with a smile on his face.
Xie Fuya did not hide it, and bluntly said that she was going to the western suburbs to find her brother Xie Zhuo and ask the prince about the errand.
When the fifth wife heard this, she thought that Xie Fuya was asking for Cai Sanye, so she hurriedly stopped pestering and asked more, and sent all the way to the corner gate to watch Xie Fuya board the carriage.
Xie Fuya urged the coachman to hurry up, and arrived at the western suburbs of the horse garden in more than a quarter of an hour.
As she got out of the carriage, she heard cheers coming from afar.
When I looked up, I saw two horses galloping in the stables enclosed by wooden fences, and dust was flying under their hooves! There were some people standing outside the fence, giggling and laughing, or raising their arms and shouting.
"Grandma, will Uncle Zhuo be there? "It's like poetry.
"Let's go, let's take a look!" said Shefya, pulling out her skirt and revealing her red sheepskin boots hidden under it, strode towards the fence.
The closer you get to the fence, the worse the smell is, Rushi frowned and covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, but turned her head to see that her master's brows didn't frown as if he hadn't smelled it!
The people at the fence only watched the fierce scene of horse taming in the field, and no one noticed the two delicate little ladies walking behind.
"Good job! Cheng Ziyu! Just clamp the horse's belly and grasp the horse's mane!" A man who lifted the hem of his robe and tugged into his belt waved his arms and shouted, "Don't fall off! The soft man of the Xie family can't hold on!"
Cheng Ziyu: Xie family soft egg?
Xie Fuya's willow eyebrows were raised, and her eyes turned to the horse farm.
I saw four horses in the fence, two black, one white and one chestnut. A black horse and a chestnut horse were empty on their backs, and two horses were grazing leisurely in the enclosure. Another black horse and a white horse frantically shook their heads and hooves, trying to shake off the man on their backs!
The man on the white horse was dressed in a bright red robe, and his long hair was uncombed and tied behind him with a headband. He sat on the horse's back with his upper body upright, his strong legs tightly clamped the horse's belly, his hands grasped the horse's mane, and let the horse jump and hoove, he was also as steady as Mount Tai and did not shake!
On the other hand, the ...... on the black horse The young man was much more embarrassed, and his entire upper body was pressed against the horse's neck! Although his hands were also grasping the horse's mane, his legs were weak and could not clamp the horse's belly, and the black horse jumped and swayed several times, and the young man almost fell off the horse several times!
"Longevity?" exclaimed.
Isn't the young man on the back of the black horse the same Luo Changshou she sent to her brother to be a personal servant?
"Huh, where did the little lady come from?" One of the onlookers heard Xie Fuya's voice, and when he turned his head to look at it, his eyes lit up.
The others also turned their heads when they heard the sound, and they were all amazed to see the beautiful woman frowning.
"Sister?" walked out of the crowd a young man wearing a smoky purple round neck and a silver crown on his head, he looked at Xie Fuya with a look of surprise, "Sister, didn't you come to find me?
This person is Xie Zhuo, the son of Princess Anyang and Xie Juma, who is nineteen years old this year.
Xie Zuo looks like a member of the Xie family, with clear eyebrows, a thin and tall body. If he doesn't speak, doesn't move, and just stands quietly like that, people who don't know the root are afraid that they will say "What a beautiful son"!
"I heard that my brother came to the western suburbs to race horses, and I wanted to come and cheer for my brother. I didn't know when I came, but I saw my brother asking a boy to train a horse. Xie Fuya said coldly with a calm and beautiful little face, "I still heard someone shouting there, 'The soft people of the Xie family can't hold on'?" I don't know how my grandfather and a few cousins and cousins will feel when they hear it." ”
The man who had just shouted this couldn't help but look embarrassed, touched his nose and smiled.
When men get together to play and gamble, it is inevitable that they will say something sarcastic, demeaning, and even foul language. It's just that both sides are in high spirits and don't care much.
"It's falling, it's falling!" Suddenly, the onlookers shouted!
Xie Fuya's heart sank, and she quickly rushed to the fence and looked inside.
Luo Changshou on the black horse couldn't support it and fell down, the black horse hated this boy who wanted to tame himself, and he screamed and raised his front hooves to step on the boy!
"Luo Changshou, get out, get out!" Xie Fuya screamed as she grabbed the wooden fence!