Zhenyuan sighed and said: "Isn't it, they are all girls who have never met, and we are not familiar with them and have no words to talk about, so we are naturally very embarrassed." Besides, I have been walking around too much in the past few days, and my feet are sore and painful. ”

Zhenshu smiled at this time: "Now you know that Tianzu is good, right?" You shouldn't have learned how to bind your mother's feet, wrapping both feet the size of a palm, and you have to walk hard. ”

The two were laughing and talking, and suddenly the trail turned, and there were two people standing on the path, one was wearing a straight deep coat of jacquard brocade, a small crown on his head, and a young man with a white face and red lips, who was the fifth prince Dou Keming who had seen him in Beishun Hou's Mansion the day before yesterday, and the other was wearing a green cloth deep coat and a Zhou Zi scarf, with a thin figure and a delicate face. ”

Dou Keming held a folding fan in his hand, pointed to the young man wearing Zhou Ziscarf and said, "This is my friend Zhang Rui, why is Sister Song Mansion also here?" ”

Zhenyuan said: "We originally wanted to go with a group of sisters to see the late-blooming peonies in this garden, but I pulled them down because my feet were too slow. ”

This path was already narrow, and now that Dou Keming was standing in the middle of the road, Zhenyuan and Zhenshu naturally couldn't pass him, and they could only stand opposite him. Dou Keming's eyes stared at Zhen Yuan up and down, but his eyes were frivolous, as if the woman in front of him was already in his palm. He looked at it for a long time before he said: "I heard the day before yesterday that my sister has not yet promised to marry someone, and I don't know what kind of man can get into my sister's eyes." ”

Zhenyuan heard this Dou Keming as soon as he opened his mouth about the marriage of men and women, although he was slightly younger than himself, he was also an adult man, so what was the system of talking about marriage in public. It's just that even though she thinks so in her heart, her tongue freezes in her mouth and she can't say a word. However, Zhenshu stood behind Zhenyuan with cold eyes, seeing that she blushed but remained silent, and said loudly: "Men and women get married, the parents order the matchmaker, if Dou Gongzi wants to talk about marriage, he should go to the Song Mansion to talk to the elders, such a small path, I am afraid it is not the place to talk in detail." ”

Dou Keming saw Zhenyu in the bamboo forest the day before yesterday with a pretty girl ring with a delicate figure and a slightly dark complexion, but at that time, he was so focused on Zhenyuan that he hadn't noticed her. He has seen Zhenyu's personal ring, but it is just a mediocre goods, and now he sees that this pretty girl ring is following Zhenyuan, presumably it is Zhenyuan's personal ring. If Zhenyuan goes to the Hou Mansion as a concubine, then this girl ring will naturally follow her. The concubine's maid ......

Dou Keming frowned and looked at it for a long time, then suddenly bit his lip and smiled: "There is also a pretty matchmaker!" ”

Zhenshu has read through idle books since he was a child, and naturally read "The Story of the West Chamber", and heard him even say it to the matchmaker, how could he not know what he had in mind. She stood in front of Zhenyuan, stared at Dou Keming and said: "Not only do we not have a matchmaker here, but we don't have a green lady and Huang Liang, Dou Gongzi is afraid that he has recognized the wrong person." ”

Dou Keming didn't laugh angrily, patted the folding fan and said, "Don't blame Yahuan, I know that you are heartfelt." It's just that the man should marry the woman and the girl will always get married, so will you still treat her like this at that time? ”

Zhenshu said: "We are going to the peony garden now, I am afraid that the girls in front of us will be anxious, and I will ask Gongzi Dou to take a step." ”

Dou Keming now looks at these two beauties, and the more he looks at them, the more he loves them, and he is willing to let them go. And because Zhenyu promised to make Zhenyuan a concubine for him, now looking at Zhenyuan is like looking at his own concubine, and he can't enjoy enough. Hearing Zhenshu urging him like this, he was half annoyed and half teased: "You are too careful, if I marry your girl in the future, you and I will always meet at that time, now you give some warm words, and you and I will meet in the future." ”

Zhenshu sneered in his heart, and scolded secretly: Delusional about your sweet dreams.

She took two steps back to avoid the approaching Dou Keming and said: "If you really want to marry, you should come only when the three media and six hires have done enough etiquette, although my eldest sister does not have a dowry, but she is also unwilling to take people lightly, as for being a concubine, it is really wishful thinking." ”

As a maid, Yu is a little offended by the owner, and he is proud of his pet, and he is cute and cute. But if you say it bluntly, it will be called blind. Dou Keming first saw that this girl was neither humble nor arrogant, and there was some rose-like thorn beauty, but she repeatedly targeted herself and contradicted herself, which made Dou Keming a little embarrassed in front of her friends. He pointed at Zhenshu with a fan and said: "A little girl, dare to speak wildly......"

Zhang Rui, who was wearing a green cloth beside him, stretched out his hand to help the handle of his fan, pulled Dou Keming with one hand and said: "Brother Keming, our manly husbands, how can we make these little Jiao'e cry here, aren't you drunk and talking nonsense during the banquet, get out of here quickly." ”

Zhang Rui helped him to the side of the road as he spoke, and looked back and implied that Zhenyuan and Zhenshu were going quickly. Zhenyuan and Zhenshu met, and left here quickly with her skirt.

After walking a few steps away, Zhen Yuan glanced back again, and saw that Zhang Rui was still holding Dou Keming hostage, waving his hand at herself from afar, for some reason, her heart jumped violently, and she almost fell into the water after taking a wrong step. Zhenshu helped Zhenyuan up, found a stone chair to help her sit down, and said: "Are you frightened just now, that Dou Wugongzi's words are frivolous, and you don't even know how to play him a sentence or two." ”

Zhenyuan shook her head and said, "Although I am angry in my heart, my mouth is too stupid to speak. ”

Zhenshu also sat down beside her and said: "Although he is at odds with you, he doesn't really want to marry you as a wife, but the day before yesterday, Zhenyu promised that if he was willing to marry her, he would take you to him as a concubine." He must be thinking that you are already his concubine now, so you will pick each other, you have to sober your mind, don't be fascinated by his appearance. ”

Zhenyuan was dumbfounded for a long time before she said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" ”

Zhenshu said: "I thought it was just a stubborn word between them, but when I saw this Dou Keming today, I knew that he must be serious." As for Zhenyu, you are her eldest sister, as long as you don't agree, how can she take you as a concubine lightly? ”

Zhen Yuan nodded slightly, looked up, and saw that this was a quiet place, a place where the twists and turns were deep and the willows were piled up with smoke, and among the strange rocks under his feet, the red and white koi fish swam and frolicked in the water, shattering the shadows of the pavilions and sills in the water, and shuttled back and forth between the shadows of the mountain stone monsters. The two sisters looked at the palm-sized koi in the middle of the lake and frolicked, and their worries were different, but they also sighed at the same time.

After sitting by the waterside for a long time, the little girls in the general corner of Nan'anhou Mansion came running and wheezed: "It turns out that the eldest girl of Song is here, and my wife Hou has a banquet, and the cousin and the second girl are waiting for the eldest girl to go to the banquet in the Xuanze Hall in the east." ”

Zhenyuan heard that this time Mrs. Nan'an Hou personally hosted a banquet, and for them, the rules were very high. Hurriedly got up and dressed up, and Zhenshu and the two of them followed the small girl ring of the general horn, and walked through the moon cave together, walked on the water bridge, crossed the waterfall curtain, walked for about half an hour, and saw a female wall winding, with a January cave door in the middle. When I entered the door, I saw that this place suddenly opened up, and there was a high hall in the courtyard, and there were many maids and women standing outside the hall, so I knew that this place must be the place where Mrs. Nan'an Hou set up a banquet.

Zhenshu is a maidservant at this time, so it is naturally inconvenient to enter. Zhen Yuan went up the stairs alone, and a maid had already opened the curtain for her and led her to a spacious hall in the east. There were about one or twenty people in this room at this time, all of whom were sitting on circle chairs eating tea and gossiping. Zhen Yuan saw that in addition to the sisters she had just met in Tao Suyi's boudoir, there were seven or eight young sons who were also sitting and eating tea, and Dou Keming and Zhang Rui, whom Fang had just met in the garden, were also among them.

On the first circle chair sat a woman wearing a fragrant brocade wide-sleeved gown and a purple-red pleated skirt, her pink cheeks and slightly drooping eyes, although the corners of her mouth were smiling, she couldn't suppress the majesty between her eyebrows, and Shen sat on the side. Zhen Yuan saw that this woman's complexion was too young, and she was not sure whether she was Mrs. Hou or Mrs. Shizi, and was hesitating, when Nie Shiqiu quietly walked over, took her arm and bent her hand in front of the noble lady, and bent her knees and said: "Auntie, this is the eldest girl of the Song Mansion, just now we wanted to see the peony, so we left her halfway." It was also the niece who was ignorant, and she didn't realize that she had lost her guest for a long time, but she was just going to Xuanze Hall to go to the banquet, and her niece realized that she had lost her guest, and she hurriedly called a few little girls to find it. ”

Nie Shiqiu's words, not to mention Mrs. Hou's Nie family, all the people in the audience turned their eyes on Zhenyuan, and Zhenyuan was ashamed that she had nowhere to hide, and only after a while did she blush and said: "The little girl has seen Mrs. Nan'anhou." ”

Nie Shiwei pointed to a maid ring to help her help Zhenyuan, and then said with a smile: "Our garden in the house is quiet, losing someone is not a new thing, but losing a coquettish guest is our sluggishness, how can we blame you, sit down quickly." ”

Zhen Yuan saw that there was still Zhang Quanqi in Weiwei, got up and walked over slowly, and sat down in Weiwei. Before he sat down, he listened to the Nie clan say: "Where did you just go?" It's been two days since Du Yu came out of prison, can the government find any trace of him? ”

Dou Keming bowed and replied: "As soon as the accident happened that day, Ying Tianfu Yin notified my father, and my father took me to search carefully along his escape route, but he only searched the area around the South City Gate, and then he lost his trace and had no clues. The area around the south city gate is the Hu market that has existed since ancient times, in which the water is deep and the people are mixed, it is difficult to search exhaustively, and it has to come back to make a difference. ”

Bei Shun Hou is now still leading the identity of the security envoy of the capital, although Du Yu is in prison, but he is still the son of Du Guogongfu, such a big name, to catch and fight, Ying Tianfu Those low-status catchers are naturally not easy to start, so they moved Bei Shun Hou as soon as something happened.

Nie said: "In this way, I don't know if he is in the city or has escaped from the city?" ”

Dou Keming saw that the four ladies were all looking at him silently with affection, and he was secretly a little proud in his heart, coughed his throat and said: "The little nephew thinks that he has been arrogant in Beijing since he was a child, and playing some arrogance is just on a small piece of land in the capital. So at this time, he must still be in the capital, and he is probably still mixed with those lower nine streamers who were familiar with him back then, those people are cunning and avoid the three caves, it is difficult for Ying Tianfu to grasp his whereabouts, and if he wants to arrest him, I am afraid that we will have to be our father and son. ”

Nie nodded silently, Dou Mingluan was also seated at this time, and took over his brother Dou Keming's words and said: "Maybe he is just tired of being in prison, and secretly ran out to breathe, and when he is done, he may go back." ”

Before the others were speech, Zhenyu laughed and said, "Good sister, where is he as good as you think?" I think when I was seven or eight years old, I once called his nickname Fish Belly, and his ass was swollen when he pulled him outside. He was at least twelve years old that year, and I sued Du Guogong's ears, and Du Guogong beat him and couldn't get out of bed for half a month. People said that he had to learn this lesson, but as soon as he got up from his injuries, he still did evil as before, not only did not repent, but also intensified. ”

Seeing that there was an argument in the audience, Nie sighed: "In the final analysis, it is always a poor child who has lost his mother at a young age, and it is also possible to behave in a biased way without his mother's discipline, but it really makes people worry about him!" ”

She turned her head around, looked up and smiled: "The banquet has been prepared in the West Hall, and I will accompany you children today to have a good time and eat two cups of fruit wine, how about it?" ”

The ladies in the middle of the seat naturally smiled and responded, Dou Keming and these young sons took the lead in getting up and standing by the door, waiting for every lady to go out, and then slowly followed.

This Nan'an Hou Tao is originally from South Vietnam, and his actions are also in the style of South Vietnam. The west hall of this Xuanze Hall is very spacious and bright, the wooden floor is shiny and bright, all of them are futons and low tables, one person and one person, kneeling and sitting in turn, and the meals are also divided according to the position. Each female guest is kneeling beside a maid to serve, and next to the male guest is the half-grown boy who waits back and forth, although there are many people, there is no chaos.

There was a feast here, and everyone talked and drank without talking. The maids and daughters brought by the outside provinces all stood under the eaves and listened to orders. Because the Nan'an Hou Mansion and the Beishun Hou Mansion are all related to each other, the servants also know each other well. The nobles inside were talking about something, and they were also whispering outside. Zhenshu stood beside a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, dressed very neatly, and I didn't know that it was a first-class girl ring in front of the girl, she hugged the burden and whispered to another forty-year-old mother-in-law next to her: "Mom, do you know what the prince of Du Guo killed in the first place?" ”