There was a wide carriage parked in front of the General's Mansion in Yankangfang, and in the carriage, Situ Ningbing was leisurely tasting the newly built Lushan clouds, seeing that he lifted the curtain from time to time and looked into the two vermilion gates, his face showed an anxious look, "Why haven't you been in for so long and no one has come to greet you?"

"What's the hurry?" Situ Ningbing took a sip of tea and said leisurely: "I have been away from home for ten years, and now that I have come back suddenly, I must verify the truth and defend the truth before I can welcome home, otherwise I will take a fake home and be happy, and it will hurt Situ's face even more." ”

Seeing that Pian Yuan wanted to complain about the efficiency of Situ Mansion, he thought about the family that was not good at arranging the master, so he had to pick up the good ones and said, "Madame hasn't seen Miss for ten years, and now Miss must be surprised and happy when she comes back." Maybe we're arranging a banquet for the young lady right now. ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw twenty or thirty maids and servants hurriedly walking out of the main gate, and they walked to the carriage and greeted each other. Situ Ningbing looked out through the curtain of the car, and the leader was a young woman who looked like a housekeeper's daughter-in-law, vaguely familiar, and asked from memory: "Is it a magpie?" She remembered that the big girl next to her seemed to be called a magpie.

The daughter-in-law in charge had red eyes when she heard this: "Miss has a good memory, and the slave is a magpie." The slave maid was ordered by the lady to greet the young lady. So saying, he asked the housekeeper to lead the carriage to the second gate, and he followed behind with the maids and servants.

The curtain of the carriage was slowly closed, and a peerless beauty with bright eyes and bright teeth jumped out of the carriage, combing a hundred flowers and a narrow sleeved gauze skirt with lake water green, lining her skin like clotted fat, like a hibiscus like a blue wave fairy, and the maids and servants couldn't help but praise in their hearts: "Miss is really a great beauty." ”

Unexpectedly, the beauty turned around and saluted respectfully, rolled up the curtain, and stretched out her wrist like a snow lotus. In the carriage, a hand of Qianqianyu, who deceived the frost and snow, put it on her wrist, and the hand was as white as jade and flawless in the sun, and the beauty was so beautiful that it was dizzying, and it pressed the beauty down.

The woman in the blue shirt slowly stepped down from the carriage, with a bit of lazy taste in her gestures, charming and elegant, it was really unparalleled, and it took a long time for everyone to notice that she was wearing a mask on her face, and suddenly realized: This is the real Miss!

It was the magpie who reacted first, stepped forward with a smile and saluted: "Madame is already waiting in the Tianxiang Pavilion, Miss go over quickly." ”

Situ Ningbing nodded, holding Jianlian's wrist and following her to the Tianxiang Pavilion in the main courtyard. Walking wall by wall and gossiping with magpies, "Where are you on an errand now?"

The magpie turned around and replied respectfully: "Miss Slave Tuo's blessing has to be lifted by Mrs. Tuo, who is now in charge of the needlework and clothing in the house. ”

"I haven't seen you for ten years, but you've learned to say nice things. Situ Ningbing still likes the girl who doesn't talk much but is diligent and capable in her memory.

Magpie's face was a little red but said very seriously: "The slave is telling the truth, if it wasn't for the young lady's maintenance, the slave and the maid still don't know what? Madame also asked the slave and the maid to take charge of the needlework room because the young lady values the slave and the maid, and the slave and the maid have the grace of the young lady today." "The magpie is a girl who admits death, for so many years, I have always remembered that Huang Ying framed herself back then, and it was the young lady who defended it so that she was not killed, and she married the young lady and gave a very rich dowry, which was decent enough, which was natural in Situ Ningbing's eyes, but in the eyes of the magpie, it was a great kindness, and she always wanted to wait for the young lady to come back and then serve her well to repay the kindness of the young lady.

Situ Ningbing couldn't help but smile when she looked at her serious face, "I thought you had grown up, but I didn't want to be the same as before." Having said that, the heart is happy, and everyone can say flattery, but loyalty is not available to everyone.

He asked some trivial things such as: "Is the Xue'er raised in the past still alive?" "What new varieties have been added to the peony in Tianxiang Pavilion?" and "Has the second son been punished again?" The magpies all replied one by one, and the servants and maids who followed behind them listened to them chatting and had no suspicions about the identity of this young lady in their hearts, if it wasn't for the real young lady, how could she be so clear about the things in the mansion? This is the purpose of Situ Ningbing, she is as fake as she is, yes, but after ten years away from home, the people in this mansion will question her identity, so she has to make people have nothing to say at the beginning!

Tianxiang Pavilion is Mrs. Situ's courtyard, Mrs. Situ's boudoir name is Peony, she was a beauty who moved the world back then, and this courtyard was specially set up by Situ Ningbing's father to welcome the beauty. As the name suggests, the courtyard of the Tianxiang Pavilion is full of peonies, each of which is extraordinary, but unfortunately it is not the peony flowering period now, and the beautiful scenery of peony blossoms can not be seen.

"The slave has seen the young lady. At the entrance of the Tianxiang Pavilion, a grandmother dressed in a dark blue narrow sleeve dark pattern coat greeted Situ Ningbing before she could approach.

Situ Ningbing looked her up and down a few times and said tentatively, "Is it Mama Jin?"

When the grandmother heard this, she couldn't help but gesture: "Miss was only so old when she left home, it's hard for you to remember the slave." As he spoke, he wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, "Madame is already waiting in the main hall, Miss go in quickly, Madame is looking forward to your return every day!"

Situ Ningbing bowed slightly, followed her into the main hall, and saw two noble ladies sitting on the two rosewood peony pattern Taishi chairs facing south, the one on the left hand side was wearing a chrysanthemum pattern top, a flowing dark flower cloud brocade skirt, covered with a juan gauze gold silk embroidered smock, holding a pair of gold inlaid beaded butterfly hairpins in a double knife bun, and her appearance was beautiful Although she was a little old, she was still a beauty. Look at the one on the right, wearing an antique double butterfly brocade shirt, wearing a peony thin hookah mopping long skirt, a red gold phoenix tail agate tassel hairpin hangs down from the sky bun, which makes her already gorgeous complexion a little more charming, even if the age difference is almost the same, the national color Tianzi has forced the beautiful woman on the left hand side to become a foil.

Situ Ningbing sighed secretly in his heart: "My mother's demeanor has not diminished for so many years. She walked up to the woman sitting on her right hand and bowed, "My daughter greets her mother." ”

The woman had already wet her eyes, and as soon as she helped Situ Ningbing and hugged her in her arms, she cried: "My hard-working child!"

Mother's embrace is fragrant and warm, Situ Ningbing was held by her and suddenly gave birth to a feeling of being in a different world, she has been away from home for ten years and is only more than 3,000 days and nights, but she has experienced the hardships and tribulations that others have not suffered in ten lifetimes, waking up and calculating, falling asleep and continuing to calculate in her sleep, thousands of times through life and death, until now she really realizes that the past Situ Allure is completely dead!

Mrs. Situ hugged her daughter and cried for a while, and another noble lady and a group of maids and servants rubbed their mouths for a long time before they were persuaded to stop. One wall wiped her tears, the other pointed to another noble lady and introduced to Situ Ningbing: "This is your uncle, the Duchess of Shuguo, come over to see the ceremony." ”

Situ Ningbing obediently stepped forward to greet the noble lady, "Allure has seen my uncle." Although her demeanor has a lazy taste, there is a natural nobility in her gestures, which is a little more pleasing to the eye than the rules and etiquette.

Duchess Yang of Shu helped her up without waiting for Situ Ningbing to finish her salute, took her hand and said with a smile: "I can't complain that your mother remembers you every day, what a lovely child." As he spoke, he took a lotus lotus embroidered with colorful auspicious clouds from the hand of the grandmother on the side and handed it to Situ Ningbing, "Some gadgets, just take them to play." ”

"Thank you, aunt. Situ Ningbing generously took the purse from Yang's hand and handed it to the person beside him to put it away. Look at Yang Shi standing next to a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, wearing a silk pipa top, sprinkled with flowers and smoke skirt, pulling a simple snail bun obliquely inserted a purple jade hibiscus hairpin, really eyebrows like thin willow face like hibiscus, beautiful as out of the painting. If it weren't for the fact that he had already gotten a report that his aunt had brought his cousin to live in the house, with the eyebrows and outlines of this girl who were fifty or sixty percent similar to his own, Situ Ningbing really thought that his father had raised a daughter outside.

The girl stood timidly beside Yang, looking at her with a look of wanting to speak and stopping. Situ Ningbing frowned, looked at her, and then looked at Yang, and when he met her gaze, Yang seemed to react, and hurriedly pointed to the girl and introduced, "This is your cousin, Xiu'er." Then he turned to the girl and said, "Why are you like a piece of wood, and you don't know how to greet your cousin?"

When the girl heard this, she hurriedly came up and met Situ Ningbing, "Xiu'er has seen my cousin." "Her life is petite, and her voice is a little shy, which makes people can't help but feel pity. I don't know why Situ Ningbing was called by her like this, and suddenly felt that the roots of his teeth were sour. However, since they are cousins, this "cousin" is not called in vain, Situ Ningbing withdrew a string of jade bracelets from his right wrist and put them on Duguxiu's slender wrist, and said with a smile: "I didn't prepare any meeting gifts when I first saw my cousin, although my cousin's white skin is not a valuable object, it is a good match, and I hope my cousin will not dislike it." ”

Duguxiu seemed to be a little flattered, and secretly took a look at the Yang family on the side, and saw that she didn't say anything, so she blushed and thanked Situ Ningbing.

"Why are you so petty?" Situ Ningbing frowned secretly, "I still have such a vain mind when I raise up like this, and I don't know what my uncle thinks?"