On May 17, the old lady was sixty-six years old, and the Su family took care of a whole cart of luggage, and hired another car to call Zhao He, the only family member in the house, to follow, and took several daughters to Beijing in mid-April.

The early spring sun was just right, but there were five women sitting in a narrow carriage, and they were naturally out of breath. First Zhenxiu couldn't stop pulling the collar and shouting hot, and then Zhenyi was making a fuss about throwing up, and the Su family took care of this and that, and she was too busy to breathe.

Seeing Zhenshu sitting at the front, Zhenxiu stretched out her foot and kicked her and said, "You go down and follow, don't come and squeeze us." ”

Before Zhenshu could reply, Su Shi also smiled and said: "Zhenshu, you are a big foot, this car is going slowly, you go down and follow the car, we will also squeeze less, you also feel wide, okay?" ”

Zhen Shu patted his ass angrily and said, "Why? They are all sisters, they ride in the car and I walk? ”

Zhenxiu stretched out her thin and pretty little golden lotus and said, "Just rely on my three-inch golden lotus, do you have it?" ”

Zhenshu smelled her little feet wrapped in a thick footcloth and covered in the shoes before she got out of the shoes, the smell was very strange, she covered her nose and said: "You stuff this thing into your nose and smell it yourself, don't come out to harm people again." ”

Zhen Yi also took off her shoes when she saw this, Zhen Yuan had not forgotten her upbringing, and she was reluctant to take off her shoes, but the smell in the car was so bad that it could smoke people to death. Zhenshu stopped the carriage and jumped off the horse, and couldn't stop saying, "Kill yourselves with the stench." ”

Now it is not yet the rainy season, the official road is very flat and spacious, the new green chestnut valley seedlings everywhere are endless, the warm spring breeze sends the fragrance of flowers, the external scenery is more than a hundred times better than the inside, and Zhenshu is used to wearing thick-soled coarse cloth shoes, and he is used to walking on the road, and he does not feel foot pain when he walks on the road.

From Huixian County to the capital about 300 miles of road, the car has to travel three days to arrive.

Along the way, I also saw women following the car, but they were all older and full-timed mothers-in-law, and the maids of the idlers had to sit in the car. Su Shi is not short of money to hire a car, but she is determined to let everyone in the capital know about her beautiful daughters, so she has to save all the money to buy jewelry in the capital.

After resting on the road twice and traveling for another day, it was not until the evening of the third day that Su took his four daughters to the capital.

Zhenshu was exposed to the sun all the way on the road, and her leather surface became much darker, and she was too hot to wear the stumbling long skirt, only wearing a short shirt skirt and holding her hair, and she didn't look like a girl from a distance, but like a half-sized child.

When the car arrived at the gate of the Song Mansion, I saw the Shen family of the four-room Song Angu family standing at the gate to greet him.

She is only twenty-seven or eighteen years old now, her posture is white, her skin is beautiful, and she is wearing the most fashionable waist-cinching armor in Beijing, lined with a slender waist, and her lips are scarlet in the sunset, smiling slightly.

Su called Zhenshu to help him get out of the car, and saw that it was also a concubine, Shen was still as young and beautiful as a young woman, and his face was blown red by the wind in that poor countryside and had many wrinkles. After saving up for a few months, the mood was swept away, until Zhen Yuan also got out of the car and came to visit, Su Shi looked at it from the side, Zhen Yuan looked more beautiful than Shen Shi I don't know how many times, this is the first time to have a new interest.

Zhenshu Zhenxiu Zhenyi worshiped the Shen family one by one, and the Shen family smiled: "Except for Zhenyi, I haven't seen the rest of these big girls." When I saw it today, I realized that what the second sister-in-law said was true, your daughters are really all national colors, but I hate that I didn't have the life to give birth to a daughter, only those two boys are naughty every day. ”

Su Shi said secretly in his heart: What kind of blessing is it to give birth to a daughter, you have two fat and strong boys under your knees, even the old lady, you have to choose one of them to be a filial son, and this son will say cool things.

Of course, she couldn't say that on her face, so she took over the conversation and said: "Fourth brother and sister, you are really blessed, two big fat boys in a row, they are all simple, chubby, and lovely, who doesn't like it?" ”

Shen's mouth couldn't close when he heard this, but Su had no children under his knees, and it was not easy to show it all in front of her, so he took over the conversation and said: "Children are the same, we just do our best and know the destiny of heaven." ”

She welcomed the Su family and her daughters into the mansion, and arranged them in the small courtyard of Song Anrong when the family was not separated, and the Shen family commanded the people to move and salute, standing in the courtyard and bowing and saying: "Second sister-in-law, don't blame, now the land in Beijing is expensive, and there are many people in our house now, and the only ones who can vacate it for you are these few rooms." There are beds in each room, and you will divide them among yourself, and I will send for the food in a while. ”

Su Shi first took out a box of ginseng from the box and handed it to Shen, Shen didn't take it herself, so she handed it to Rongrong, the girl next to Shen, and when she saw Rong Rong taking it, she smiled and said: "This is a special ginseng in the mountains of Huixian County, a thing with excellent medicinal properties, so keep it and give it away." ”

Shen smiled: "You can ask for the second sister-in-law's things there, you are too polite." ”

Su Shi saw that she was still smiling on her face, so she also smiled and asked, "Is the old lady's love good?" These girls haven't seen her for many years, I wonder if she would like to see her tonight? ”

Shen Shi said with an embarrassed face: "She and the second lady have been fighting for a long time today, and I am afraid that she has already fallen ......asleep at this time."

Seeing Su Shi's disappointed face, she smiled again: "But I'll go to the easy-going house in a while, and let her know, it's the same if you go to see you tomorrow morning." ”

The old lady Zhong has a strange temper, if she dares to take her daughters to see her this time, she is afraid that she will be guilty of being inconsiderate to the elders, and if she does not go, she is afraid that tomorrow morning she will say that she will arrive home without meeting the elders, which is rude. It was she who borrowed the Shen family to investigate, but since the Shen family was willing to go and inform herself, she could rest in this small courtyard with peace of mind tonight.

Because there were only three rooms, the Su family had to live in the same room with Zhenyi, giving Zhenyuan a separate room, and Zhenshu and Zhenxiu could only squeeze into one room, and there was only a small bed.

Compared to Caijia Temple, it is not as comfortable as there to be. After all, the second room is just a concubine who goes out of the house, and when he returns home, he wants to eat and live, and he is all under the fence. But Su's mother and daughter were crammed into the narrow carriage like soft-footed shrimp for three days, and at this time they were tired and collapsed on the bed and couldn't get up.

Before dawn the next day, Su got up early, went to the next room to wake up Zhenyuan, and then called Zhenshu Zhenxiu and Zhenxiu, and dressed up after rummaging through the cabinets.

She prepared a ten-piece open moonflower skirt for Zhenyuan to wear when she saw the nobles, and another bag was loaded, so she took it out and tied it for Zhenyuan first, and when Zhenyuan had finished grooming and cleaning her face, she put on a short jacket with flowers for her, tied the palace silk forbidden step for her, and took a silver-pink shawl to drape it for her. An unmarried woman should wear half of her hair, i.e., half of her hair in a bun, and the other half should be draped over her shoulders to show her unmarried status.

Su personally put on a green silk for Zhen Yuan, and decorated a few hairpins for her, stood far away and took a closer look, before nodding and saying: "This is also a national beauty!" ”

"Oops! You hid my footwrap there! Zhenxiu suddenly shouted, walked away with a footcloth, and stood by the bed screaming. Su Shi glared and said, "Are you not lively enough?" ”

Zhenxiu said: "I slept with Zhenshu last night, I don't know where she threw my footcloth, mother, you don't blame her, you actually blame me?" ”

Zhenshu was freshening up, and when he heard this, he pulled the handkerchief and wiped his face, and angrily threw the curtain out of the door, and after a while, he walked in with a stick and a long black cloth, and deliberately threw it in Zhenxiu's face and said, "Give you a smelly and long wrap." ”

Zhenxiu glared at Zhenshu for a long time, and sneered: "Second sister, you have a temper when you arrive in the capital, but I am afraid that you have not remembered what I said." ”

Su Shi walked over with the clothes he wanted to put on Zhenyi, poked Zhenxiu's head and said, "Do you have any memory?" I said that when I arrived in Beijing, I should talk about it according to the seniority in Beijing, Zhenshu Song Mansion ranked third, you have to call her the third sister, you are the fourth sister, the ugly mouse Zhen Yao in the third room is five, our family's Zhen Yi is six, and the red mouse in the other three rooms is Zhen Yan is seven, you must forget. ”

Zhen Yi rubbed her eyes and walked in, half-squinting and snorting: "Niang Xingrong is really like, the two little daughters in the third room are not like two mice." ”

Zhenyuan and Zhenshu, Zhenxiu has never been to Beijing for several years, and she has never seen the daughter of Sanfang, only Zhenyi has to follow the Su family to Beijing every year for the old lady Zhong's birthday, so she has seen it. Zhenshu took the handkerchief and wiped Zhenyi's face, and said softly: "No matter what they look like, they are all our sisters, and we can't say the same about the children of the third uncle's family in the future." ”

Zhen Yi squinted and told her to finish wiping, and got up to get Zhen Yuan's rouge gouache to apply it to herself. It's still dark, and in front of a dusk brass mirror, she and Zhenxiu's two hairy heads are crowded together, competing to rip off the powder from the tin box and apply it to their faces, and another person has a big lump of rouge to coat her cheeks and lips.

Su Shi dressed up himself, urging this and urging that, and suddenly saw Zhenshu with a slender skirt and a six-piece skirt, and the slender figure stood at the door and looked coldly at Zhenxiu and Zhenyi who were pushing me, and exclaimed: "When did you clean up, I didn't even see you wash your face." ”

Zhenshu put his hands on his waist and bent his knees and said, "Back to my mother, my daughter took the time to clean up by herself." ”

She said this loudly and generously, and her salute was even more unswaying and calm. Su Shi, who had never taught her the rules before, was shocked, she held her hand on her chest and took a handkerchief to recruit Zhenyi and Zhenxiu, pointed to Zhenshu and said: "Look, this is the proper etiquette, you two will not be ashamed if you do what she does for a while." ”

Zhenxiu has a plump figure and more strength, and finally grabbed more rouge. She already has thick lips, but now the rouge is blood-red, showing a big mouth. got up and pulled the six-piece skirt that was too tight at the waist, glanced at Zhenshu coldly, spread her hands and said: "She is used to pretending, but adults like her like this, what should I do?" ”

Su Shi saw that she set off all the folds of the six-panel skirt, and secretly said that he and Song Anrong were both good-looking, and they didn't know how to give birth to such a short and slender daughter, but fortunately, her skin was white and tender, and she was wrapped in two three-inch golden lotuses, and there were always people who loved this kind of mouth who would marry her.

Even if he was in such a hurry, after the girls had cleaned up, Su Shi lifted the curtain and looked out, and exclaimed: "Oh no, it's too late, it's already dawning, I'm afraid it's too late." ”

A few girls dressed up neatly and walked out, and they saw the Rong Rong girl beside the Shen family walking into the courtyard, and said with a blessing: "The fourth lady asked the slave maid to come and show the way for the second lady." ”

Su Shi lifted her skirt and went down the steps, shook Rong Rong's hand, and by the way, she also stuffed Rong Rong with a handful of copper coins and said, "I'm so tired of the girl." ”

Shen is willing to make himself a powerful big girl ring to lead the way, which shows that yesterday's mountain ginseng must have been voted on her favorite.

As the saying goes, the king of Hades is good at seeing little ghosts, and he does not spare money on these minions, and they are naturally willing to take care of the Su family.

Rong Rong took the second room Su and a few girls, bypassed the kitchen and the subordinate room, and passed through two alleys before arriving at the easy-going house where the Zhong family lived. This easy-going house has a total of four courtyards, it turns out that when Song Gongzheng Song old lady is in, there are still some concubines in the courtyard, and people come and go in the courtyard is also very lively, and then the old lady Song died, the concubines died scattered, and now the back three into the courtyard will lock the doors and windows and no longer enter the people, and the Zhong family only lives in a main room. The first time Su took the four daughters he gave birth to to go back to the house, and her daughters were all outstanding, and they were already determined to make the Zhong family look at them differently, so they didn't dare to look around at this time, and followed Rong Rong into the easy-going house.

The curtain of the main room of the easy-going house was raised, and from a distance, you could see Zhong sitting on the Taishi chair in a dark red long-sleeved shirt, and a slender young woman standing next to him.

Su Shi took a few girls to the middle of the yard and stopped, a few girls had already hugged the mat to spread on the ground, Su took the girls to lift the skirt on the mat, and said loudly: "Concubine Su has seen my mother!" ”

"Granddaughter Jung-won (Zhenshu, Zhenxiu, Zhenyi) has seen her grandmother!" Several girls bowed down in unison, bowed three times, and then knelt firmly with their foreheads in their palms facing up, not daring to flicker in the slightest.

I don't know how long it took before Zhong snorted and said, "Get up!" ”

The Su mother and daughter stood up and tidied up their dresses, and listened to Zhong's words: "Come in." ”