Chapter XXVII
It is said that Xue Baochai saw Lin Daiyu and Jia Lu, looked at the appearance of the two of them, and was jealous for a while, he has always been good-looking, and he has always been top-notch when he was in Jinling. The casual salute and the grace and ease of getting up, compared to himself, seem to be more and more rigid and detained.
Daiyu and Jia Lu had long known about Xue Baochai's arrival, and they also rushed back from Ning Guofu for this reason. Seeing a strange young woman sitting next to Jia's mother, she knew that it was Xue Baochai, Daiyu knew that her brother had committed a murder case, and she didn't have a good first impression of her, but she was also a guest of the Jia family, and it was not good to show Xiàn, thinking that it would be far away in the future, so it was only a glance or two. And Jia Lu knew that this was Xue Baochai, who was as famous as Daiyu, compared to her pure liking for Daiyu, Sister Lu's sense of Xue Baochai was much more complicated, she hated her golden cicada for framing Daiyu, and pitied her for trying her best to plan for herself at a young age. Sister Lu opened her eyes and looked at Xue Baochai curiously, now Baochai is the age of drawing, although there is still children's baby fat, but it is not fat, the skin is fair and ruddy, it seems to be born with smiling lips, there is always a three-point smile on the face, it looks kind and lovely, there is no gorgeous headdress or bright flowers on her head, only a silver hairpin, and there is only a jade bracelet in her hand, which is very different from girls of the same age, it can be seen that she "does not like flower powder" It's a fact, there is a shiny gold lock on her chest, which doesn't match her style, Sister Lu concentrated, this golden and jade relationship won't be so early, right? Baoyu is only nine years old, is this too early?
Xue Baochai had long noticed this little girl who had been staring at her, and only when she was curious, she smiled lightly at her. Sister Lu knew that she had been caught, so she smiled awkwardly and sat solemnly waiting for the banquet to start.
At the banquet, Aunt Xue intended to curry favor with this wealthy family, although the Jia family disdained the Xue family's businessman status, they regarded themselves very highly, but they coveted the Xue family's millions of family assets, and the atmosphere was also lively and harmonious.
When the feast was finished, everyone went back to their places to rest.
Daiyu and Sister Lu also returned to Dailu's courtyard in Rongguo Mansion together.
In other words, two years ago, Sister Lu was equipped with a good upbringing, and the maid or something was gradually in place, although it was not all to Rongguo Mansion, but there were a lot of people, and it was not good for the two of them to live in such a small gauze closet, although Jia's mother had the intention to let Sister Lu move out so that Daiyu and Baoyu could cultivate a relationship, but Sister Lu was sticking to Daiyu, and Jia's mother was not easy to say, plus it was said earlier that Daiyu would move out after the winter, so a courtyard was prepared for the two of them in the East Courtyard (east of Wang Xifeng's courtyard), and our Sister Lu named it "Dailu Courtyard." ”。
Anyway, there is an accident in this Dailu Courtyard. After everyone learned that Sister Lu named her yard in Huifang Garden "Garden in the Garden", they had a deep understanding of Sister Lu's incompetence in naming her, and they didn't want to be even more out of tune this time, looking at one of the two names, but she couldn't afford "Yulu", "Luyu", "Lu Dai", but gave a name of "leading the way", and then everyone laughed at Sister Lu for a while, Sister Lu thought that she was ashamed, and she didn't change it, and whoever came was "leading the way"! Everyone also saw Sister Lu's stubbornness, and they didn't dare to act too recklessly in the future.
Brother Rong of Ningguo Mansion was admitted to Tongsheng this year, and simply stayed there after the exam in Jinling's hometown, planning to study for a few years and try it in the next game, and lived with Sister Lu's cousin Han Qi, and Brother Qiang worshiped Feng Ziying's father, General Feng, as a teacher, and returned to learn martial arts every morning.
The topic was far away, and said that Sister Lu went back to the house, washed up under Jiao Qian's service, lay on the couch, and according to the original habit, asked Mama Li to tell her if she was rude this day, and then did some analysis for Sister Lu. As long as you don't go out as a guest, there is nothing rude at home, it stands to reason that there are guests visiting today, Sister Lu and Daiyu are a little rude to return late, but first, although Daiyu and Sister Lu are resident, they are not considered people from Rongguo Mansion, and the relationship with Aunt Xue's mother and daughter is even more distant, and there is no reason to let guests pick up guests, secondly, due to the weather, the Xue family postponed the coming date, Dailu and the two did not know the exact deadline, and they also informed the elders when they returned to Ningguo Mansion, so there was nothing rude today, just when Mama Li was about to retreat, Sister Lu reached out and kept it。
"Mama, Sister Yuanchun entered the palace at the age of fifteen, why did Sister Xue enter the palace at the age of eleven?"
Mama was stunned, as if she didn't expect Sister Lu to think of this question, her eyes flashed, it would be good to be able to remember the numbers at such an age as Sister Lu, and she could tell the difference in age to ask such questions.
If Sister Lu knew that Mama Li thought so, she would have to cry, she was relatively straight, and she would pretend to be a ** child in front of her parents and elders, and she would be coquettish and cute, and she would go back to her own territory, but she relaxed, Sister Lu was worried that her relaxation would reveal the real age atmosphere, and the growth of age would naturally bring about psychological maturity, and this kind of maturity is "early wisdom" in the young body, so she is often able to not speak without speaking, for fear of being discovered by others , her family knows her own affairs, she herself is not smart, if she is "smart" and "stupid" when she is young, and is regarded as a negative teaching material for "when she is young, it may not be good", then she has no reputation at all. It's just that I didn't expect that the things I worked so hard to hide would be seen by Mama Li, the old fox, and I was still working hard to hide it. At this time, Sister Lu didn't know, but she just wondered why Mama Li hesitated for so long.
Mama Li said with a slight hesitation in her tone, "The eldest girl of our family was selected into the palace by the female official of the guò back then, and when the emperor did not want to marry the concubine, he would make a small selection, and select the female official and the palace maid, the female official is mostly from the family of the middle official eunuch, and assists the palace concubine in managing the palace affairs, and can be a concubine alternative, the palace maid is taken from a small innocent family, and the female official is more noble than the palace maid, but before the palace concubine is the same as the palace maid, she is naturally the best at the age of fourteen or fifteen."
The Xue family is a businessman, are not in the female officials, palace maids, today, the Xue family girl is not a convention, the holy decree is said to be the current poetry and etiquette, recruiting talents, descending from the world's Longen, in addition to hiring concubines, all the daughters of the world's famous eunuchs, are all named in the department, in order to be selected as the princess, the county lord to accompany the school, as a talent, praise the good job.
Serving as a princess and county lord can improve the status of the girl, and it is best to be slightly older than the princess and the princess, and you can be selected from ** to eleven or twelve years old. place
As a businessman, it may be the longen who was elected by the predecessors of the Xue family at the same time when he was named Ziwei Sheren!" "It is also possible that the Xue family is either relying on power or inducement, and it is not impossible to take the position of a woman with the same surname." Of course, such a scandal naturally can't be known to the young master, no matter how smart and precocious she is.
Although Sister Lu was puzzled by the hesitation in Mama Li's tone, she didn't think much about it, after all, whether the Xue family was glorified by the grace of the Son of Heaven or not, Mama Li couldn't be sure that it was possible. Moreover, they are the same four major families, the Jia family has a double prince, the Shi family has a double marquis, the Wang family has a feudal official, and it is not a big deal for the Xue family to be qualified as a businessman.