Chapter 46: A Lively Day
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the weather was fine on this day, and Wang You personally came to Rongfu to pick up Xifeng back to his parents' home. Jia Lian deliberately postponed the entertainment on this day and accompanied Xifeng.
After a short time, they arrived at the palace, and the Lin family arranged a table of Xifeng's favorite meals, and Wang Ziteng and Jia Lian chatted for a long time in the study. The Xue family has been living in the palace since they entered Beijing, and at this time, Mrs. Xue, Baochai, Yishu Yijing, Aunt Qin, and Aunt Su also came out to accompany Xifeng.
Aunt Su has become more and more honest in the past two years, and she likes Yijing Yishu very much, and always looks for various opportunities to get closer to her twin sisters. At this time, it was no exception, Aunt Su's big watery eyes showed just the right amount of motherly affection, patrolling back and forth on Yishu Yijing.
Only Yishu and Yijing sisters didn't eat her set, and played with Baochai next to Xifeng.
"I heard that my aunt has hired another master to teach you, and two masters teach at the same time, can you handle it?" Xifeng looked at the three flower-like sisters in front of her and was quite proud in her heart, hugging this and pinching that.
Baochai pursed her lips and nodded with a smile, and Yijing patted her chest: "Sister Feng, don't worry, we are smart." β
Yishu shook her head slightly: "The two of them can handle it, but I don't like it very much." β
"Why don't you like it?" Xifeng touched the soft little ball on Yishu's head, now that the sisters are older, they have their own preferences.
"What the master is talking about is either reading and writing or abacus or something, reading and writing is fine, but I don't like abacus at all, I ......" Yishu looked at Aunt Qin and stopped talking.
Xifeng picked her up and let her sit on her side: "Shu'er, don't be afraid, tell Sister SΓΉ what you like, you don't have to vomit." β
"I like to grind rouge cream, well," Yishu thought again, "and the juice for dyeing the nails of my mother and aunt, but my husband never talks about it." β
Lin helplessly held his forehead and gently poked Yishu's head: "I want to find you such a master to teach you, but there must be a master who knows this." β
Aunt Qin hurriedly asked Yishu to get down from Xifeng's lap: "You are so big, why do you still climb on your sister's lap, you don't know that it hurts at all." If the rouge paste is all that nonsense, how can it be compared with what the master taught, don't come nonsense. "Aunt Qin hopes that her two daughters can become everyone's best girls like the Lin family.
"I'm holding her, auntie, don't talk about her." Xifeng smiled and looked at the Lin family: "Shu'er likes to pour rouge juice, why don't you find someone to teach her?" Feng'er thinks this is like embroidery, not only to pass the time, but also a girl's pastime, what does the aunt think? β
Lin thought for a while: "It's not that it's impossible, it's just that it's hard to find such people." β
"It's okay to invite a female master who makes rouge to teach her, and we don't want her to be a rouge master in the future, nor do we want other people's secret recipes, just let the master point her out." When Xifeng spoke, she just wanted to satisfy her sisters' hobbies as much as possible, and she didn't expect that Yishu would become a sought-after master for women in Beijing ten years later. The rouge gouache, alabaster and other things she made can't even be put down by the ladies in the palace.
Lin is a very generous mother, the twins are very well-behaved and never make trouble, and Xifeng helps to pad a few words, so he nodded and agreed, and arranged for Mama to find a female rouge master with good skills and peace to teach Yishu. Yijing and Baochai are sometimes interested, and they will follow them to learn for a while, but they are not interested in anything, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, only Yishu is tired of it, and learning is a lifetime.
While everyone was talking, the nurse came over with Wang Xin, who had just woken up. When Wang Xin saw Xifeng coming, he babbled and shouted vaguely, and his sister reached out to Xifeng to hug him. Xifeng hurriedly hugged it in his arms, and Wang Xin, who was happy twice, smiled.
"I haven't seen you for two months, Xin'er has grown a lot, she is taller, and her skin is whiter. It's much better than You'er Bai a few years ago. Xifeng poked his fleshy face.
"I see that Xin'er looks more like a sister-in-law as she grows older, and the older you get, the more she looks like her brother." Mrs. Xue said with a smile, stretched out her hand to hug Wang Xin, but Wang Xin hugged Xifeng and didn't let go: "Look, as soon as Feng'er comes back, he won't let me hug it." Obviously, I fed him porridge with minced meat yesterday. β
The Lin family seemed to be a little surprised, looked at Xifeng and Wang Xinzhi and shook their heads, patted the hand of the Xue family and sighed: "Hey, it's not just that I won't let you hug it, as soon as his sister comes back, he won't even let me hug it." β
Xifeng smiled and threw Wang Xin and caught it steadily, Wang Xin, who was happy, clapped his hands and kept calling "brother" and "sister". Only when he is held by Wang You or Xifeng can he experience this stimulating feeling, and when Xifeng is there, Wang Xin naturally does not want others to hug him.
"Because Xin'er knows that Sister Feng's kung fu is good, right~" Xifeng said and threw Wang Xin again, she controlled it very well, and the height of each throw would not exceed one and a half feet, which was very safe. The maids and daughters-in-law were all shocked, but the Lin family was not worried at all.
"Mrs. Hui, Mrs. Gu, all the girls," a maid came in with a happy face: "Uncle Pan has just put up a three-zhang peacock kite in the yard, please Mrs., Mrs. Gu and the girls to see the kite." β
Mrs. Xue said with a smile: "I heard Pan'er say that I found a good thing to keep Feng'er and show it to her, it turned out to be a kite." This kid is really, what is so strange about a kite, and he also uses it to offer treasure. β
Xifeng narrowed his eyes, Xue Pan was really getting more and more well-behaved, and he also knew how to offer treasures.
"Let's go and see, the three-zhang long kite, I haven't seen such a big kite." Xifeng is looking forward to it, since Xue Pan dares to offer treasures, it should not be a vulgar thing.
Everyone nodded, and they put on fox fur cloaks or big hats. The Lin family and the wife of the Xue family walked in front together, Xifeng hugged Wang Xin behind them, the three Baochai sisters followed, Aunt Qin and Aunt Su were at the back, plus the maids and women, this team had twenty or thirty people.
As soon as she got out of the house, the sharp-eyed Yijing saw the big kite flying in the sky: "I saw it, it's so beautiful!" Yijing clapped her hands.
Everyone looked up, and sure enough, the huge but delicate silver peacock was flying in mid-air, each feather was very delicately drawn, and the sun was shining.
When I got closer to the garden, I realized that the peacock kite was covered with a layer of silver powder, and it was no wonder that it was shining.
As soon as Xue Pan saw that Lin, Xifeng and others were coming, he hurriedly handed over the spool to the little maid, and he ran over to salute and say hello.
Xifeng is very happy, he hasn't seen him for two months, and Xue Pan has grown a lot. The salute is wooden, and it is much more regular than before.
Xue Pan saw Xifeng with a smile, and took a step forward to scratch his ears and cheeks with a shy face: "Does Sister Feng like this kite, this is specially asked by my younger brother to find it, and several kite masters made it together, and it took a month to make it." I've heard that it's complicated. β
"It's not only complicated, it's also expensive." Xifeng seemed to be smiling.
"It's good that Sister Feng is happy, but it's just a hundred taels of silver." Xue Pan thought that as long as he liked Xifeng, his life would be better, after all, Wang You listened to Xifeng's words very much.
Xifeng naturally knew why Xue Pan was so flattering, and after thinking about it, he asked him, "Did you prepare such a kite?" β
"How so!" Xue Pan hurriedly argued: "I bought a lot of kites, but the others are small, they are for the three younger sisters, and this one is specially given to Sister Feng." β
"Well, I also know that I have prepared it for my sisters, yes, you have a heart." Xifeng felt that Xue Pan seemed to be smarter than before: "How are you reading books lately?" Did You'er pull you to practice martial arts? β
Xue Pan immediately cried and complained with a sad face: "Mr. said that I read very well, but I miscalculated a few questions before learning abacus, and what Mr. said about chickens and rabbits in the same cage, I didn't understand it for a long time, and my cousin asked me to accompany him to practice kung fu for half a month." Sister Feng, look at my arms and legs, they are thicker than before. β
"But after practicing martial arts, I ate a lot, so I grew meat?" Xifeng smiled.
"Where is it," Xue Pan muttered in a low voice: "Cousin You's hands are too heavy......
"Ha," Xifeng couldn't help laughing, and then looked at Xue Pan's aggrieved little face, and hurriedly held back: "Okay, you are a gentleman, why are you always weak." I'll talk to You'er when I go back, and let him do it lightly in the future. But look at the way you can't carry your shoulders and your hands, or you will practice hard every morning and evening for an hour. Xue Pan's body is not strong yet, and Xifeng has a headache when he looks at it.
Xue Pan was entangled: "I listen to Sister Feng, but you must remember to tell your cousin, and you will start lightly." β
"Don't worry." Xifeng glanced at Xue Pan funny, and took Wang Xin to go to the garden to watch the kite. This silver peacock kite is really pleasing to the eye, and it looks like a real peacock flying in the sky.
The Lin family and Mrs. Xue didn't care what Xifeng and Xue Pan said, and took a few girls and two aunts to slowly turn the garden outside, looking at the kite from all angles. The Lin family and Mrs. Xue didn't know that the girls were less than seven years old, so they asked Wang Ziteng to take Wang You and Jia Lian to the garden to watch kites.
After a while, Wang Ziteng had already brought Wang You and Jia Lian over. I saw Xue Pan take out a few kites from a box and distribute them to Baochai, Yijing, Yishu and Wang Xin.
Look at the silver peacock flying in the sky, how Jia Lian looks unpleasant.
Hearing everyone say that this is a kite that Xue Pan specially found to welcome Xifeng back to his parents' home, Jia Lian suddenly felt that this chubby Xue Pan looked so unpleasant? He only spent eighty taels of silver yesterday to ask Zhao'er to find a kite master from Weixian County to order a pair of Caifeng kites, and when he was ready to accompany Xifeng to fly a kite outside the city, this kid will sing this to him today.
Jia Lian was a little depressed, looking at Xifeng's shining eyes at the moment, when he took Xifeng to fly a kite, would she still be so happy?
At this moment, except for Jia Lian, everyone is very happy. Wang Ziteng and Lin also praised Xue Pan. Seeing Xue Pan's smugness as if he was dumbfounded, but he kept touching his head and smirking, Jia Lian was angry.
On this day, the Wang family was harmonious, but there was a disturbance in the Rong Mansion.
A lame Taoist man with a big gourd hanging from his waist in ragged clothes and messy hair came to the door of Rongguo Mansion.
When the people saw that he was dirty and did not look like a serious person, they bombarded him with words.
The Taoist priest didn't care what everyone said, he only asked, "Can Wang Xifeng be in the mansion?" β
"Where did the bastard Taoist priest come from," two of the little maids on the door were from the big house, naturally devoted to Xifeng, and they made a fuss when they landed, and went to catch up with the Taoist priest with a stick: "Our grandmother's name is also what you can call?" β
The minions of the big house were assigned by Xifeng to train Mama Qian for a few nights, not only emphasizing etiquette, but also focusing on brainwashing, so that they all looked forward to showing XiΓ n so as not to disappoint Xifeng. At this time, listening to a pickled Taoist priest bluntly talking about Xifeng's name, how can there be no reason not to be annoyed.