Chapter 23: Mockery
Li Xin glanced at Li Shu, who was like in the previous life, with a group of pale pink shirts, showing a particularly playful and lovely look, and said secretly, you have no halo of a talented woman in this life, look at the prince of Cheng'en who is still married!
But it was said that Mu Hibiscus, since he said that he wanted to learn, this kind of thing of going out to meet guests, naturally he also had to learn, so Mu Hibiscus went with Caiqin under the instructions of Mrs. Li, leaving Lilac to study in the house with Caiqi. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
For the first time to follow the housewife to such a big scene, Mu Hibiscus was as nervous as Li Shu and Li Lan who wanted to make a big move, and was also afraid of making mistakes, but it was important to follow Mrs. Li and Caiqin, and there should be no big problem if you listen to their orders.
Sitting in the car of the maids, Caiqin saw that she was nervous, so she smiled and said: "You don't have to be nervous, it's not difficult, just follow your wife." ”
Caiqin is about to marry and be the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, and Mu Hibiscus will not compete with her for the position of housekeeper's daughter-in-law in the house when the deed of sale expires two years later, since she has no interests entangled, so Caiqin taught Mu Hibiscus to be naturally very dedicated, and did not play any tricks, deliberately let Mu Hibiscus make mistakes, provoking Mrs. Li to scold.
Hibiscus smiled: "Okay, when the time comes, what I'm going to do is wrong, my sister must remind me." ”
"Don't worry, it's on me." Caiqin laughed.
After a while, the group came to the Cheng'en Mansion, and when they saw Mrs. Li and others coming, they were greeted by the housekeeper's daughter-in-law and led them to the inner courtyard.
The Li family is just a down-and-out Earl's Mansion, the new favorite of the Cheng'en Mansion, the Duchess of Cheng'en will naturally not go out to greet them, Mrs. Li knows that she is walking outside, going to the Prince's Mansion, and often receiving this kind of treatment, she is used to it, so she doesn't care, still with a smile, with her daughter and others, into the hall of hospitality, when you enter, you see that the hall is already full of people, the Duchess of Cheng'en is talking with a few princes and ladies, and the people surrounding her are also the ladies of the noble family.
Although the eyes are full of dignitaries and nobles, Mu Hibiscus has seen a lot, and he has heard Caiqin introduce several important people present, but he can see at a glance that the princes and ladies present are all people with no real power, as for the surrounding noble families, most of them are also like this, some officials and wives, but either they are low-grade, or they have little power, and those who really have real power, or those who are respectable, have not come, it can be seen that many people in the capital are still not interested in dealing with the new Cheng'en Gong, at least not now.
When Duchess Chengen saw that Mrs. Li was coming, she smiled and said, "Mrs. Li is here." Then he said to a girl who was about the same age as Li Xin and the others and had an arrogant face: "Haven't you always admired the talent of the two girls of the Li family?" Now they are here, so go over and get close. ”
Mu Hibiscus looked at the girl and listened to Caiqin's introduction, it was Zheng Xiuxiu, the youngest daughter of Duchess Chengen.
Although Chengen Gong is the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Zheng, he is not young, nearly fifty, the reason why he is so old, the son of Chengen Gong is only sixteen years old, it is nothing more than the reason why the Duchess of Chengen was the first to blossom and then bear fruit, the prince of Chengen has three sisters on his head, fortunately, the conditions of the Zheng family were average, so he did not take a concubine because the Duchess of Chengen gave birth to several daughters in a row, and then finally the son of Chengen Gong was born, and then gave birth to a female baby, which is the current Zheng Xiuxiu.
Now that Master Zheng has become the Duke of Cheng'en, he naturally accepts many beautiful concubines, but in the end, when he is old, those beautiful concubines have not given birth, and the population of the house is simple.
However, since Zheng Xiuxiu is the youngest daughter, she is naturally pampered, and not long after I can remember, the Zheng family has jumped from a civilian family to a national prince, and the family environment has changed, and she has been better educated, so that she is more visible than several sisters, because the first few daughters are married, and it is no longer possible to get married, so the youngest daughter has not yet come out of the cabinet, and the Chengen Gong couple are still counting on her to marry a good family in the future, so as to bring benefits to the new Zheng family, so they naturally pay more and more attention to Zheng Xiuxiu, The background of the daughter of the national prince, coupled with the attention of her parents, also raised Zheng Xiuxiu because of this, is a little dust-free, which is also very normal.
At that moment, Zheng Xiuxiu listened to the introduction of Duchess Chengen, glanced at Li Xin and Li Shu over there, and couldn't help but roll her eyes secretly, thinking about what cats and dogs she would introduce to herself, but she was just the granddaughter of the count, she was the daughter of the princess, what admired the talent of the Li family's two thousand gold, she was obviously jealous of their talent, and in the past, she hated others the most that the three girls of the Li family had done a lot of famous poems and became talented women, and she felt that she had something great, and she would be able to write poems again, but she was just the granddaughter of the earl, or the granddaughter, I hate it when I see her being touted.
But at this time, no matter how dustless Zheng Xiuxiu is, she also knows that she can't say ugly things, so as not to be told that she is uneducated, so she smiled and said: "Then let's go to the front to compose poems, several little sisters are waiting, just waiting to see Miss Li San's masterpieces today." ”
Li Shu was proud when he heard her name mentioned, but he still tried his best to maintain a modest appearance on his face, and said repeatedly: "Don't dare, don't dare, it's just a poetry to meet friends, where do you dare to call it a masterpiece." ”
Excessive modesty is pride, although Zheng Xiuxiu didn't know this famous saying, but Li Shu said this, but it still made her feel uncomfortable, and she couldn't help but say at the moment: "You are too modest, several Hanlin scholars have called your poems well, you have to say bad, doesn't it mean that they are wrong?" ”
Li Shu listened to Zheng Xiuxiu's provocative words, and the smile on his face couldn't help but stiffen, and Li Xin on the side almost couldn't help laughing when he saw it.
In the last life, although the prince of Chengen wanted to marry Li Shu alive and dead, let Li Shu get his wish, but whether it was Chengen Gong or Mrs. Chengen, they were not satisfied, because they wanted their son to marry a girl from a good family, even if they couldn't marry Gaomen, even if they married a girl from the Li family, they should marry an eldest daughter like Li Xin, how could they marry a concubine, if their son didn't want to marry her, they wouldn't agree at all.
Not only Duke Chengen and Duchess Chengen don't like Li Shu, but Zheng Xiuxiu, because she also likes to show off poetry, but because Li Shu's poems are always better than her, stealing her limelight, she also dislikes Li Shu very much.
There are a few simple people in the family, all of whom don't like her, so although Li Shu married as he wished, for a long time, life was not easy, until Zheng Xiuxiu got married, Cheng'en Gong passed away, and only Cheng'en Duchess was left.
Li Lan on the side, originally saw that Duchess Chengen only introduced Li Xin and Li Shu to Zheng Xiuxiu just now, as if she didn't see herself, the smile on her face was almost unbearable, and she was annoyed in her heart, but she didn't dare to do anything to Duchess Chengen, until she heard Zheng Xiuxiu's words mocking Li Shu, she was also jealous of Li Shu, and she was naturally very happy, so her smile was sincere.
And at this time, Li Shu listened to Zheng Xiuxiu's words, although she was angry, but she didn't dare to pinch her, and if she didn't show her brilliance at that time, forget it, if she was kicked out by the master's family because of a fight with the master's daughter, it would be bad, so she only smiled at the moment and didn't say anything, of course, Li Shu is not such a good person, so although she didn't say anything, she kept it in her heart, thinking that there would be a chance in the future, and it would not be too late to clean up this indispensable woman.