There was also an unmarried woman sitting in the room who was not tall and had a round face and almond eyes. Tao Suyi smiled: "Sisters, this is my cousin from my family, and my name is Shiqiu. We are all unmarried women, but we are a little older than one or two years old, and we don't have to do some false courtesy, so we can talk together for a while and then go to the back garden, and appreciate my family's late-blooming peony, can you? ”

Naturally, there is nothing wrong with the rest of the people.

Nie Shiqiu walked over slowly and said, "Please take a seat, sisters." ”

She and Tao Suyi greeted several girls from the Song Mansion and sat down together with Mingluan, before sitting down on the first two circle chairs.

Zhenyuan is still gone, Zhenxiu wants to show her good social style among the ladies in Beijing these days, and she thinks that the ladies in Beijing are all long-tongued women who like to gossip and make trouble, or like Dou Mingluan, she sings and sings a few lines of poetry, and she is fluttering when she holds it.

I knew that when I arrived at Nan'anhou Mansion today, I saw that the lady in the house had a bookish temperament, and she was cheerful and generous, and she seemed to be friendly but there was no place to start, and the two had to sit down with the crowd, and they didn't dare to speak for a long time.

Although there are a group of maids accompanying the side, Tao Suyi still personally pours tea and serves the cups for the guests. What she uses here is a complete set of Yue kiln celadon, the glaze is verdant and lush, but it is radiant in her hand. The true color of this tea cup is as clear as the lake, and then injected with tender yellow tea, held in the hand goose yellow with verdant, smelling the fragrance of tea overflowing, causing people to seem to flow smoothly on the lake surface in spring in March, and the scenery flows endlessly.

The wife of the Hou Shizi of Beishun, Tao Shi, is Tao Suyi's sister, Dou Mingluan has a deep relationship with her, and when she arrives at her territory, she naturally has to learn from her general elegance, not to mention Nie Shiqiu. Only Zhenyu lost her mother at a young age, and she lacked education in terms of boudoirs, and she didn't like to be soft since she was a child, and she didn't like to work hard in these aspects. Now that I see these ladies so literate, I don't like it even more, and I don't bother to learn from them, so I drank it all from the cup, and put the tea cup on the square table. Zhenxiu and Zhenyi saw each other, and they also drank it all and put down the teacup.

Seeing this, the maid ring who was waiting behind him came over to fill the tea cup, Zhenyu saw that Tao Suyi and Dou Mingluan were still holding a small cup and didn't know what to look at there, so in silence, he was not the first to speak, raised his eyes and looked out of the window, and faintly saw that Zhenshu was still wearing the long gown, standing in the courtyard with a group of maids. She was tall and thin, a head taller than the other maids, so that she could see it as soon as she looked up.

Zhenyu and Zhenxiu were busy laughing and scolding the ladies in Beijing yesterday, and they didn't bother to report that Zhenshu offended him the day before yesterday when he was in the Beishun Marquis Mansion. At this time, the women in this room were in front of the other three girls in the second room, so it was a very interesting thing to be embarrassed in public.

Thinking of this, Zhenyu slowly crooked the teacup, and the tea still fell on the cloud shoulder on her chest, and then she pretended to be surprised and said, "Fourth sister, why did you hit me?" ”

Zhenxiu was originally sitting next to her, and she was deliberately squeezed very tightly, so everyone didn't pay attention, and at this time they all looked at Zhenxiu, and really thought that Zhenxiu had hit Zhenyu. Zhenxiu didn't know Zhenyu's intentions, but she also knew that she had to hold this sister, so she put down the teacup and got up and said, "It's my sister who is careless, don't blame my sister!" ”

Zhenyu waved her hand and pulled her to sit down and said, "This is what I said, but you didn't notice it." Quickly ask Yahuan to come in for me and change the cloud shoulder. ”

Zhenxiu was about to get up, when she saw Zhenyu coming over and whispered, "Call the third sister to change." ”

Zhenxiu understood, went out and took Zhenyu's burden from An An's hand and handed it to Zhenshu, and said warmly: "Good second sister, just now I accidentally knocked over Zhenyu's teacup, she spilled tea on her shoulder, and asked you to change it by name, please don't lose your face, serve her well, and ask her to spare me." ”

Zhenshu said: "I am your second sister, she is your second sister, don't torture me." ”

As he spoke, he also carried his baggage into the house, walked up to Zhenyu and said, "Please let the second girl loosen her clothes here." ”

Zhenyu moved the chair back, pointed to the ladies sitting in the middle and said: "It's just a cloud shoulder, this middle school is all sisters, and if it's not in the way, let's change it here." ”

Zhenshu did not doubt it, and first personally relieved Zhenyu's wet cloud shoulder. Unfolded the burden on the side, took out another piece of 10,000-year-old Ruyi willow leaf cloud shoulder, bent down to tie it for her, and listened to Zhenyu say: "Your head is too high, I can't breathe when I press it, kneel down and tie it." ”

Zhenshu glanced down at Zhenyu, and saw that although her face was faint, the corners of her mouth were sneering, and her eyes were full of mockery, and she suddenly understood. What Zhenxiu knocked over the tea cup must have been intentional by herself, and what she did must have been to humiliate herself. Zhen Shu was a bit stubborn, and he had never been controlled by the Su family, and he had read more idle books, and he was also a little arrogant in his heart. The anger was about to come out on the spot, but he glanced back at Zhenyuan, and saw that although her complexion was very delicate, her face was uneasy, and her ten fingers were pinched together and looked at herself, presumably because she was afraid that she would make a fool of herself in public and worry about herself.

Thinking of this, Zhenshu secretly forgave himself in his heart: No matter what you say, Zhenyu is also a sister, so what's the harm in kneeling.

She knelt down on her knees, stretched out her long posture and stretched out her hand to tie Zhenyu's cloud shoulders, and then got up and said, "Second girl, tie it." ”

Zhenyu saw that she provoked her not to attack, and the evil anger in her heart was not exhausted, but she could no longer rub her in public, so she smiled and said: "Then you are waiting behind me, don't go far." ”

Since she can't be humiliated in public, let her stand behind her as a maid, and the other sisters in the second room sit and stand with her, so that they all feel embarrassed for a while.

Tao Suyi raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhenshu for a long time, and said with a slight smile: "Song Er, this girl in your house is a little interesting, looking at the people who are neither humble nor arrogant, they are square-shouldered, and they don't look like a slave." Unlike these few in my house, although I □□ all day, I always come out with a waist and shoulders without a proper shape. ”

Seeing that Tao Suyi also noticed Zhenshu, Zhenyu felt a little proud in her heart, and deliberately raised her voice and said: "Slaves and maids are born to serve people's lives, although they have to listen to their masters' dispatches from time to time, although they have to kneel to ask for peace from time to time, they are naturally soft bones, and they can have square shoulders and bones. ”

Tao Suyi originally wanted to use Yahuan as a name to talk to Zhenyu for a few words, and when she heard her mouth, she had a diametrically opposite concept to herself, so she didn't want to talk to her anymore, so she smiled slightly and picked up the teacup.

Nie Shiqiu looked around with a smile, and suddenly bowed and said, "Sisters, do you know that a strange thing happened in Jingzhong before?" ”

Dou Mingluan lowered his head when he heard this, Zhenyu didn't know what to do, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's the matter?" I don't know. ”

It turned out that Tao Suyi was lonely and cold since he was a child, and he was not good at socializing with others, but the concubine Rong in the palace gave Mrs. Nie of Nan'anhou and asked her to entertain some young talents in her distant relatives and relatives in the house, saying that she wanted to be the son-in-law of several women in the second room of the Song Mansion of her mother's family, and Nie accepted the will to handle this matter. However, the eldest daughter Su Yan was married, and she was afraid that the ladies of the Song Mansion would be embarrassed by no one to entertain her, so she called Nie Shiqiu, the daughter of the third room of her mother's Nie Mansion, to come over to accompany her.

This Nie Shiqiu is naturally much better than Tao Suyi when it comes to warm-up communication. Seeing that it was cold here, she quickly took over the conversation and started chatting.

She deliberately lowered her voice and said, "Do you know Du Yu, the prince of Du Guogong, Du Jiedu's envoy in the palace?" ”

Zhenyu said: "That's natural, he is not famous for disobedience, when I was a child, I went to his house as a guest, and I saw his father carrying a whip all over the house to find him to whip him, and then I heard that he was imprisoned for murder, isn't he going to be beheaded?" ”

Nie Shiqiu took a sip of the teacup, lowered his eyebrows and said: "He is the son of the Guogong Mansion, although the King of Zhongshan is gone, Du Guogong and his own father and son, even if he really kills someone, he can only exonerate him, and he will really be killed there." ”

Zhenyu patted the back of the chair anxiously and said: "Over the years, they have changed their wives in the house, and we have never moved around again." What's wrong with him? But I'm in a hurry. ”

Nie Shiqiu and several ladies of the Song Mansion were staring at him clearly, and then he gently put down the teacup, knocked on the edge of the table and said: "Originally, he was detained in Yingtianfu Prison for homicide, but who knew that he escaped the day before yesterday." ”

Zhenyu exclaimed, "Escape? I remember that he went to prison two years ago, and he was only sentenced to four years in prison that year, so why did he run away after two years of imprisonment? ”

Nie Shiqiu said: "Exactly, this is the strange place." My second brother is an official in Yingtianfu, and I heard him say that although Du Yu also eats prison food, his cell is next door to the mansion Yin Gongfang, not to mention living in one, and it is spacious, bright and very comfortable. Because he didn't work hard in his studies that year, Du Guogong hired a famous teacher to teach him in prison every day, and he never stopped for two years. Because he is the prince of the country, Ying Tianfu did not handcuff him and shackles, and he acted like a normal person, and he had extra time to practice martial arts and weapons every day. In such a prison, in addition to not being able to travel freely, where is it different from normal people? And he has been very well-behaved in prison for the past two years, and he has not shown the slightest intention of escaping. Afraid that it is precisely because of this that the servants of Ying Tianfu relaxed their vigilance, and after breakfast in the morning, Mr. came to warm his homework for him, and after the warmth, he left with his books. When the servants delivered the meal at noon, they found that Du Yu had swaggered away in the gentleman's clothes, and it was Du Yu's husband who was tied to the desk in the cell. ”

Zhenyu laughed twice, and sighed: "This is exactly his way of acting, when I was young, I went to the Guogong Mansion as a guest, he looked very serious, and he held a small hairpin box in his hand and said that he wanted to give me a hairpin, I opened it to see, and a gecko rolled out of it." ”

Dou Mingluan's face was already pale, and he suddenly got up and covered his mouth with a handkerchief and said to Tao Suyi: "Good sister, let me lie in your inner room for a while, I'm a little dizzy at this time." ”

Tao Suyi got up and helped her to walk to the inner room, Nie Shiqiu said to Zhenyu Zhenyuan: "Since she is unwell, let's not make noise here, let's get up and take a walk outside?" ”

Zhenyu Zhenyuan got up a few times, although she went outside, and the group walked to the backyard.

The ancestor of Nan'an Hou Tao went to the south of the Yangtze River, and the layout of his garden was naturally different from that of Beishun Hou's Mansion, with no broad and spacious poplar forest, nor an unobstructed lake and water color. Although the garden here is small, it is full of strange things, there are strange trees of Huangshi everywhere, there are lilies behind the door of the moon cave, the bee waist bridge is dyed with blue edges, and everywhere there is the strange and exquisite charm of the south of the Yangtze River. Nie Shiqiu and Zhenyu have been playing here for a long time, and they are bent on going to the peony garden, and Zhenxiu and Zhenyi naturally follow the footsteps of Zhenyu, only Zhenyuan moved slowly, and gradually fell behind, and Zhenshu slowed down and followed her.

Zhen Yuan saw that all the ladies and girls had gone away, so she shook Zhen Shu's hand and said, "I have wronged you for standing there for a long time today." ”

Zhenshu said: "I have any grievances, but you are sitting there looking more uncomfortable than me." ”