Chapter Forty-Nine: A Group of Cousins
The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year.
It's autumn harvest time again, and the city of Hangzhou is full of fruits, and the carriage Doudou rides in is driving on the official road as unhurriedly as when he arrived in Hangzhou at the beginning of last year. The surrounding scenery is still the same, but the people have changed a lot.
Cai Qing and Cai Sang are only about ten years old, it is the age of fun, this half a year has been honestly staying in the Yuan Mansion to serve the girl, Doudou has not been out of the house for half a step, they have not even been to the market once, in fact, it has long been stuffy.
Today, Mother Zhao and Zhujun Lanyun did not come with the two big girls, this trip was their master and servant three little girls, as soon as the carriage drove out of the gate of the Yuan Mansion, Doudou breathed a sigh of relief very easily, and the two little maids were like birds out of the cage, so happy that they wanted to sing loudly.
However, the rules they learned in the Yuan Mansion for nearly a year were not in vain, and when the carriage had not yet left the city, although they passed through several lively markets along the way, all kinds of shouting and noisy sounds were endless, and the two little maids couldn't help but couldn't help but poke their heads out to watch.
This is a carriage with the logo of the Yuan Mansion, and it would be very bad for the family to see that these maids of the Mansion of the Political Envoy were unruly and damaged the reputation of the Mansion and the girl.
They can all abide by the rules, and the master must not be ashamed, the aromatic snacks can be endured, and the excitement on the street can also be tolerated, but ...... The sound of the hooves of the guards outside the carriage is unbearable! Doudou was so envious that her little heart throbbed, if only she could get a pony to ride, if only she was still in the northwest......
After the carriage drove out of the city gate and onto the official road, the two little girls couldn't hold back any longer, one of them opened the curtain on one side of the car, and scrambled to poke their little heads out of the window, the beautiful autumn scenery outside the window and the sweet and fruity breeze made both of them almost drunk.
When Doudou pulled his thoughts back from the northwest back to Jiangnan, the car window had already been occupied by Cai Qing and Cai Sang, and there was still her share there.
She is a girl who has long been left behind by them! Doudou read the two guys hard in her heart, and she was also bored and wanted to poke her head out to take a look, okay?
Looking at the two little butts in front of her, she really wanted to kick one by one arrogantly like a big white rice ball...... Ahh How do you think of that big bastard again! She doesn't want to beat people casually like him, it's not easy to see the scene, and she doesn't need to use force at all.
"Ahem......" Doudou pretended to cough lightly twice, and sure enough, Cai Qing and Cai Sang turned their heads almost at the same time: "Girl, is there something wrong with you?" ”
Doudou pretended to snort slightly, "Could it be that this girl's cough must be something?" Why can't it be that I'm sick and unwell? ”
Unexpectedly, the two maids said in unison: "Girl, don't make trouble, we all know that you won't get sick at all after eating Doctor Mo's Ice Jade Pill, and you didn't pretend to be sick like this." With that, he turned his head back at the same time.
"......" Doudou was so choked that she couldn't speak, and she wanted to kick people so much that her feet were itchy!
The carriage soon drove into the Zhuangzi, Doudou was no longer a guest when she first arrived in Hangzhou last year, although she did not live here for a long time, but she was lively and talkative, and she knew almost all the tenants in the Zhuangzi, regardless of men, women and children.
She jumped out of the carriage and greeted everyone one by one, and then happily took Cai Qing and Cai Sang into the Yuan family's house.
The people in the Yuan Mansion knew her temperament, and they were not polite to her, Doudou nodded with everyone, so that the two maids did not have to follow and wait, and ran to the old lady's yard in one go.
The old lady's yard has always been very quiet, even when Doudou lived here, he didn't dare to make noise here, but today Doudou just entered the courtyard door when he heard a burst of noisy laughter in the main house, including grandmother's, Wu's mother's, and more young girls' voices.
Grandmother has guests here? Doudou couldn't help but stop, how could there be so many guests suddenly in the village, it seemed that all of them were young girls, and the grandmother's voice sounded very happy, as if she didn't need to accompany her by herself...... Doudou felt a little lost in his heart.
The weather in August was still very hot, a rough girl about ten years old stood under the porch and blew the cool breeze, she raised her eyes and saw Doudou and greeted her with a smile: "Second girl, why are you here?" ”
"Sister Cao'er, I'm here to pick up my grandmother and go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival." Doudou took Grass's hand and returned to the porch, but his big eyes never left the door of the main house, and asked in a low voice, "Grandmother has a guest here today?" ”
Cao'er nodded and said: "I don't know where the old lady got so many nieces, haven't you seen it, one by one is beautiful, but they still come to our Zhuangzi together, but the old lady is happy these days." ”
Grandmother's niece? Doudou stroked his chin and thought about it in his head. My grandmother's ancestral home is Shaoxing Mansion, Zhejiang, not very far from Hangzhou Mansion, and the nieces who can come to my grandmother's place as a guest will definitely not be the aunts of the Yuan family, that is, my father's cousin, I have to call my cousin?
Seeing that she didn't speak, Cao'er put her mouth to the root of her ear, and said in a smaller voice: "Girl, I heard those mothers talk behind their backs, these nieces of the old lady have just been in the house, probably because the family wants them to borrow a light from our house, and let the old lady help find a good in-law." ”
Although Doudou is still young, he can still understand these words, blinking his eyes and smiling disapprenorantly: "Grandmother basically doesn't go out to socialize, and besides, she is old, where do you have so much energy to find their in-laws' house for them, these people are really not worrying at all." ”
Although the girl is smart, she is still too young after all, and the words that Cao'er has come to her mouth and forcibly swallowed it back, in fact, the focus of the mothers' words is in the back, in the eyes of these young and beautiful girls, isn't the best son-in-law candidate her second master!
Although the second master has already married, not every girl in this world has the backbone to be a poor wife rather than a rich concubine. Instead of finding a young man of the same age but uncertain future as his wife, it is better to be the side room of Lord Yuan, the second-grade feudal official.
Besides, the second master is only a young man, and he is very handsome and chic, born in the Hou Mansion and is a champion, talented and extraordinary, and the most important thing is that he has no son so far! Although the second lady of their own family is from a noble background and has a stunning appearance, in their eyes, they are also twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old women, as long as they enter the mansion and give birth to a son, there is no difference between them and the eldest son, and in the future, won't all the qiē in the Yuan Mansion be theirs?
But she only dared to listen to these words, and she couldn't say or dare to say them with the little second girl in front of her.
"Girl, you'd better go in first." Cao'er was secretly glad that she didn't talk nonsense just now, a little girl at the bottom of the Yuan Mansion like her, where is she qualified to take care of the affairs of the masters, and she was accidentally grabbed by the pigtails.