Chapter 56: Shen Wansan's fiancée

Lu Xiaoqian is the protagonist of today's banquet, as the daughter of the Lu family and the housekeeper of the Shen family in the future, she will naturally be sought after by the merchant women. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info almost every middle-aged aunt has to go over to say congratulations, and every green girl will circle around her with envy.

Listening to the same blessing a thousand times, Lu Xiaoqian's eyes were already boring while maintaining an elegant smile, and suddenly saw a strange girl sitting in the corner.

The other girls were all in high spirits to participate in the banquet, either comparing themselves with each other or busy making friends, only the girl was deserted around, she didn't seem to care, she ate the food in front of her by herself, no anxiety, no restraint, very calm. When she raised her head, Lu Xiaoqian noticed that she was about thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a narrow sleeved short shirt on her upper body, and a long skirt made of various shredded fabrics, which were intertwined and shaped like paddy fields. The hair is only in a simple bun, the back half is draped around the waist, there is no accessory on the body, there is no rouge on the face, and the clear and bright eyes turn around flexibly, with a little wisdom and a little mischievous.

The girl noticed that someone was also watching her, so she hurriedly trimmed her eyebrows and nose to make a well-behaved appearance, and took a sip of tea.

Lu Xiaoqian covered her mouth and smiled, quietly dismissed the woman beside her, slowly walked in front of the girl, and asked with interest: "Which girl are you, why haven't I seen you before?"

Ma Xiuying paused for a moment, and then said generously: "My name is Ma Xiuying, and I am the righteous daughter of the Guo family who just moved to Suzhou. ”

"Oh, is that the Guo family who saved the young master of the Shen family?" Lu Xiaoqian's eyes lit up, and her interest turned into ten. She had already inquired about Shen Wansan's affairs clearly, and it was about her future husband, how could she not worry about it? Seeing Ma Xiuying nodding, she actually sat down next to Ma Xiuying and begged in a low voice: "I'm Lu Xiaoqian, tell me what happened to you that day, okay?"

Ma Xiuying was stunned again, most women in Jiangnan pay attention to gentleness and subtlety, but this Miss Lu dared to inquire about her fiancé in front of outsiders, and it seems that she is not a simple woman. However, she doesn't hate Lu Xiaoqian, a bold and assertive woman will not drag down Shen Wansan's overseas trade plan.

Ma Xiuying found that she was indeed gone, Lu Xiaoqian looked cowardly and obedient on the outside, but in fact, the boldness and shrewdness of a businesswoman were not left behind, and people like Ma Xiuying who were particularly vigilant were unconsciously said a lot by her. For example, Ma Xiuying wanted to finish the matter with a few perfunctory words, but in the end, she carefully retold the story of saving Shen Wansan.

So the heroic and glorious image of the young master of the Shen family "peeing to save himself" appeared again, making Lu Xiaoqian and her maid tremble, and tears flowed out.

Looking at the little smugness hidden under Lu Xiaoqian's smile, Ma Xiuying knew that Shen Wansan's life would not be easy in the future.

Women are strange animals, when they find a common topic, it is easy to get closer to each other, and after a while, Ma Xiuying and Lu Xiaoqian became good friends who hate to see each other late, laughing endlessly.

Guo Daya and Guo Xiaoya were so jealous that they gritted their teeth, why did everyone only notice Ma Xiuying and couldn't see them? They wanted to interject very much, but when Ma Xiuying stopped the thieves, they were only afraid, and they didn't know what was happening around them.

Da Zhang's hinted at Ma Xiuying several times, asking Ma Xiuying to introduce Lu Xiaoqian to them, but Ma Xiuying pretended to be too involved in chatting and didn't see it. Da Zhang simply stepped forward to talk cheekily, completely ignoring the patience of others.

When the Guo sisters also gossiped, the bright smile on Lu Xiaoqian's face disappeared completely, and she stood up and said to Ma Xiuying: "I'll take you around Zhenfengli, our family also bought hundreds of acres of land in Zhenfengli." ”

Ma Xiuying had long wanted to go out to breathe, so she readily agreed.

Guo Daya and Guo Xiaoya were arguing to go together, they thought that they had spoken to Lu Xiaoqian and were already friends.

Da Zhang's pushed the two daughters to Ma Xiuying's side, "It's better for your girl's family to talk together, you can go out and play." ”

Lu Xiaoqian frowned, and said lightly: "I'm afraid that one person can't take care of the two girls, so it's better for me to assign a few servants to accompany the girls around." After speaking, he didn't care about the expressions on the faces of the Da Zhang family and the Guo family sisters, and ordered the maids around him to call the two servant women to serve the Guo family sisters, and as soon as they explained the words, they picked up Ma Xiuying and left.

"Aren't you waiting for your maid?" Ma Xiuying looked at the maid who was desperately chasing behind, and her pitiful appearance was really unbearable.

Lu Xiaoqian sped up more and more, "Regardless of her, what's the fun of letting her follow us." Hurry up, the sisters seem to have come out too, and I don't like them. Whether it is facing the Guo family's mother and daughter or her maid, she seems to be very freewheeling.

"Your personality is really straightforward. Ma Xiuying said with a little envy. In her previous life, she was also so flamboyant and didn't care about other people's attitudes, but in this life, she can't help herself in many things under the fence.

"It also depends on the person, I treat you as a friend, but I don't look at you with the way they look at you, of course I have to be polite to them. Lu Xiaoqian took it for granted, and did not mean to ask for credit. A rich woman like her can only do things according to her own preferences, and those who see the right eye can be friends, and those who don't like her eyes can also abandon them.

"To be honest, you were too unexpected to me, at first I thought you were a young lady who didn't know anything" Ma Xiuying likes Lu Xiaoqian's casualness, such a person is at least not dark in his heart.

Lu Xiaoqian chuckled: "Are you frightened by my audacity?

Ma Xiuying shook her head, "He is your fiancé, it is normal for you to inquire about him, women have the right to pursue their own happiness, why do they have to be constrained by "Women's Ring" and "Women's Morality"? I just didn't expect you to ask me in public." ”

Lu Xiaoqian's face changed, and she said dejectedly: "It's over, how did I forget that there are so many people around, now my father knows about it and has to scold me." I pretended to be a lady for a day, and all the ladies were white. She screamed badly, but her expression was not too nervous, and she could see that she was also the master who was held in the palm of Master Lu's hand.

Ma Xiuying couldn't help but think of Liu Dashan, and her expression was gloomy.

The smart Lu Xiaoqian immediately shouted: "Don't mention my father, I look at your skirt as a novelty, where did I buy it?"

Knowing that Lu Xiaoqian was changing the topic, Ma Xiuying smiled, cheered up and said, "There's no place to buy it, I designed it myself." ”

"No wonder I've never seen this style. ”

Ma Xiuying looked down at her long skirt, her face was slightly he. After coming to Suzhou, Da Zhang's family has not bought her new clothes, and this skirt is made by her old clothes and some offcuts found in Xiao Zhang's place. Because the colors of the fabrics were different and the sizes were inconsistent, she asked Xiao Zhang to cut the fabrics into small squares and sew them in a staggered manner. It looks quite chic on the outside, but in fact, the inner lining is all some cloth lines.

"You can also make skirts, you're really capable. Women are always very interested in new things, Lu Xiaoqian praised: "When will you make me one, just tell me what kind of fabric you need." ”

"Well, I'll send it to you when it's done. Ma Xiuying's voice is like a mosquito, how can she make any skirts, the skirt on her body is still sewn with the help of Xiao Zhang, she just said a general style at most. However, she was really embarrassed to say that her female celebrity was terrible, so she vaguely agreed, thinking that it would be a big deal to go back and beg Xiao Zhang to help Lu Xiaoqian make a skirt again.

Lu Xiaoqian didn't know Ma Xiuying's embarrassment, she thought that she had just met Ma Xiuying and asked someone else to help make the skirt, so she was a little anxious, so she smiled faintly, pointed to the stone bridge in front of her and said, "Look, that's the Fu'an Bridge that Shen Jiaxiu repaired." ”

At this time, Zhenfengli was just an ordinary market town, surrounded by water, close to each other, all of which had to be boated.

After Shen You moved to Zhenfengli, he built a Fu'an Bridge over the river, which is a unique combination of bridge and building. The bridge body is built with Jinshan granite precision, and the bridge railings and steps are stacked with Wukang stone. There are also four bridge towers on the side of the bridge, which are far away from each other on the water. The succession of the bridge is engraved with auspicious relief patterns. The four sides of the bridge body are built with the pavilion of the eaves warping angle, the eaves angle is high peck, echo each other, just like the flying bridge in the pavilion, and like the building house on the bridge, the bridge and the building are combined, contrast with each other, it is really the crown of the Jiangnan bridge and the building. Therefore, people who come to Zhenfengli Town can't help but visit here and rush to watch.

From a distance, the Fu'an Bridge looks like a flying rainbow across both sides of the White Clam Lake, and the flowing water flows slowly under the bridge hole, and the turquoise water plants ripple with the waves.

There are many oopong boats docked under the bridge, and some fishermen dry their nets on the shore to sell fish. This kind of small boat has two sharp ends, and the ship is covered with a semi-circular canopy, which looks like a large water chestnut rising from the surface from a distance, and like a big ingot, which makes people want to jump on the boat to have a look.

The breeze blows, the hull of the ship trembles gently, and the canopy rises and falls, endlessly, like a piece of black yarn dancing lightly with the wind, which increasingly reflects the ancient charm of the stone bridge.

Looking at the beautiful scenery like a paradise, Ma Xiuying was relaxed and happy, and the words "small bridge and flowing water" suddenly popped up in her mind. It is no wonder that in the previous life, Zhouzhuang had the reputation of "China's first water town", and every scenery here made people forget to return.

Suddenly, there was a soft and graceful song on the lake, a canopy boat accompanied by the egrets hovering in the air slowly rowed by, a few young women with rolled sleeves and bare arms sat on the boat and giggled, they were not shy to see strangers, they sang "Cai Ling Song" casually, and occasionally sprinkled a string of silver bell-like laughter, echoing between the sky and water.

Seeing the canopy boat leave, Ma Xiuying was itchy and suggested: "Let's also find a boat to play in the lake." ”

"Okay. Lu Xiaoqian smiled, this request was too simple for her.

Most of the awning boats here belong to the Shen family and the Lu family, and the two quickly found a small boat that could carry three or four people, and were about to go up, when a shout came from behind, "Ma Xiuying, wait a minute!"