All the maids knew that Rongyue Lantern Festival was going to watch the lanterns, and there was nothing bad about it, so they all rushed to offer their courtesy.

He Xuan took care of the cage clothes, and at this moment brought a bowl of white fungus bird's nest over, and asked Rong Yue if he had sent someone to call the master of the Jinge Pavilion to make a new set of clothes.

Rong Yue shook his head lightly, for fear that he would be disrespectful to the Lu family if he was dressed too brightly, so he only said: "I remember that I made a soft green woven gold embroidered cotton placket last year, but I am afraid that the ruler will be changed, so you can take it to the needlework and arrange it." ”

He Xuan responded, and when she asked Mei Xue'an to come, she replied in detail: "All the personalities and young masters are extremely well-behaved and polite, eating and having fun, and in the second half of the day, Mrs. Tai sent someone to call, saying that the time for the fifth master to come to the post has arrived, and everyone will disperse." ”

Rong Yue said: "That's good, thank you for your hard work." And said: "I remember that you said that your mother's brother likes the plum blossom-like little gold bill, this year I ordered the outer courtyard to cast a lot of Rong Bao Zhai, you pick more, even the basket of vermilion oranges, olives together with someone to send back, taste a fresh." ”

He Xuan naturally thanked her repeatedly, and when she saw her leaning on the smoke cage in a daze, she asked, "Is the master tired?" ”

Accustomed to the rich brother arguing on the side, he left suddenly, but he couldn't let go, but when he heard this, Rong Yue seemed to be relieved, and said without a head, "It's the little clothes that I made for the rich brother last time, I thought that embroidering a unicorn would look good, and I entrusted Master Du, and I should send it back." ”

He Xuan smiled and said, "Didn't you order someone to send it directly to Nalan Mansion?" ”

Rong Yue sighed, and after eating two mouthfuls of bird's nest, she didn't want to eat it anymore, so she asked Qinglian to take the little girls and taste it, and then called He Xuan over and said, "He Xuan, you are watching from the side...... Is Cousin Rong Ruo reluctant? ”

He Xuan has been with her for a long time, and she is very trusted, and when she saw her master asking, she only smiled: "Gege has thought about it a lot, if you are reluctant, how can you be invited to watch the lanterns?" I see, Gege is too anxious. ”

Rong Yue raised her eyes to look at her, and there was some hesitation in her tone: "Really?" ”

He Xuan smiled: "That's natural, you have to calm down, don't make people think that you are smiling on him." ”

Rong Yue complained bitterly in her heart, she was not a person who was good at hiding her emotions, and she would rush into it if she was good, coupled with Chang Ning's incident, she felt that she was too willful and did not know how to be considerate and gentle, and she was not forgiving at her age, if Nalan Rong was really a good match, she would only be good to Nalan with one door-heart-thought, and only hoped that this marriage could be completed.

If more than ten days pass suddenly, it is the Lantern Festival.

I don't know why the palace congratulated the queen and left the feast, and each ordered the ladies to go back to their homes, and after Nalan Rongruohu sent his mother back to the house, he turned back from the weeping flower gate to the outer courtyard.

Mrs. Nalan also vaguely knew about the lantern appreciation, so she just smiled and didn't care about him.

However, it was said that Nalan Rongruo changed into court clothes, went out of the second gate, and asked the little maid Lu to prepare a horse, and the two rode all the way along the sandwich road to a small courtyard with two entrances.

Lu Xi dismounted and went to call the door, and after a while a beautiful maid opened the door, and when she saw that it was him, she hurriedly welcomed him into the door, and closed the door again.

Nalan Rongruo asked as he walked, "Can the teacher have dinner?" ”

The maid said: "At noon, I used half a roast duck and ate two cups of wine, and a few gentlemen came to visit in the second half of the morning, and the gentleman left them to eat, and only sent Cui Ma to pick up a few side dishes." ”

While talking, the three of them had approached the door, and heard the sound of everyone in the room talking, laughing and commenting.

An old man sitting at the top, dressed in a long shirt and with three strands of beard, is the Tanhualang of Kangxi's ninth year, and Xu Qianxue, who is now the editor of the Hanlin Academy, he saw Rong Ruo enter the door, and said with a smile: "Rong Ruo comes, sit, sit." ”

Rong Ruo saw that there were some madmen in the house who were not powerful people who were not promoted to the rice business, and there were also people who were half-hidden in the city.

Thinking of this, Nalan Rongruo took the initiative to come forward to show his friendship: "The house is full of confidants, how can there be no wine?" With that, he put a jar of aging wine on the table.

A scribe on the left hand was obviously a drunkard, patted open the mud seal, sniffed it, and said with a smile: "Pear blossom white." ”

Another person praised: "Brother Zhang has good eyesight." ”

Everyone pushes the cup and changes the lamp between the words, even if it is ancient and modern, there are poems in the meantime, and the couplet is not happy. A feast was dispersed until the rooster crowed, and the profligate people in the middle of the feast, regardless of their appearance, went home.

Nalan Rongruo was carried back to the wing room by the little maid to rest, only to feel a splitting headache, and his stomach was also turning over the river and the sea, and he vomited and fell asleep.

He slept heavily here, but he couldn't sleep there, and he was worried about whether he had something to delay, so as soon as the morning dawned, he sent a small steward to call Cheng Pei to inquire about the reason for sending things to the rich brother.

Because Rong Yue has been coming and going a lot for a while, the stewards of Nalan Mansion are also polite, although Cheng Pei is young, he is a clever person, and he inquired after a while, and the doorkeeper saw that Nalan Rongruo was dressed in regular clothes and took the little guy to the bowstring alley, and he didn't know where he went.

Cheng Pei saw that he couldn't find out that he was in a hurry, and as soon as he went out, he happened to meet a sedan chair, so he stopped to the side to watch, but it was Nalan Rongruo who returned home, and he was still half-drunk and slightly drunk at this time, and there was a smell of alcohol when he passed by.

He didn't dare to stay, so he hurriedly returned to the mansion and asked his mother-in-law to report in, and it happened that Rong Yuefang had taken care of a few important matters, so he asked him to reply.

Cheng Pei said what he inquired about, he didn't react for a long time, raised his eyelids slightly, glanced at it, there was a tulle screen in front of him, and he smelled a sweet breath at the end of his nose, which attracted him to take a look at it boldly, but vaguely saw a figure standing in front of the seat, thinking that it was the maid who served the young lady, he suddenly felt rude, lowered his head, felt the footsteps move, a pair of powder blue embroidered shoes walked to him, followed by an excellent voice: "Gege praised you for your good errand, this is a reward for you." ”

Cheng Pei didn't dare to raise his head, he only raised his hands to hold it, and after a while, a heavy thing fell into his hand, and when he touched his hand, he knew that it was a gold bill, and the tentacles were still a little warm, and he didn't feel that his heart thumped a few times, and he took a light breath, then kowtowed and thanked the grace and retreated.

Qinglian saw that this person was honest like a piece of wood, and she didn't feel that she took a handkerchief to cover her mouth and chuckled, and when she returned to the screen, she saw that Rong Yue's face was dull, so she hurriedly took the hand stove and added a piece of charcoal, covered it with a peach-colored cotton cloth and handed it over.

Rong Yue gritted her teeth, waved her hand at her, and said, "You go and call He Xuan." ”

Qinglian should have retreated, walked outside the courtyard and asked a little maid, Fang Zhi and Xuan were picking lotus seeds in the small kitchen, and they came to the small kitchen again. He Xuan asked her to pick and grind the remaining lotus seeds, and the young lady said that she would use lotus seed powder to make snacks, and returned to the main room.

saw Rong Yue sitting on the soft couch, looking lonely, and asked softly, "What is the matter with the master calling me?" ”

Rong Yue slowly raised her hand to sit down, and was stunned for a long time before saying, "It's nothing, you accompany me to the garden." ”

He Xuan saw her uncertain expression, and knew that Nalan Rongruo had missed the appointment, so he didn't know how to persuade her at the moment, so he could only serve her to change into deerskin soft boots and put on a cloak of red gorilla felt and went out.

After blowing a little wind, stained with flowers and trees, Rong Yue was in a much more comfortable mood, and after a little stroll, he remembered that Luo had a poor appetite recently, so he simply went to take a look.