As the eldest daughter-in-law, Xiao's heart knows how to behave, but it is just that Jing's is not pleasing to the eye just now. As soon as Yu Shi spoke, she hurriedly stepped forward and personally invited Mrs. Cui with a smile. After a while, the two carriages of the Cui family stopped, the curtain was lifted, Mrs. Cui walked down first, and two girls came out of the carriage behind.

Mrs. Cui should have been very beautiful when she was young, but now her body is blessed and her chin has become double-layered, although she is a little out of shape, she looks like she is also glorious. The young man on the horse was her eldest son, Cui Jing, and the next two girls were her two daughters.

The curtains were raised, and the ladies sat down, while the men spoke outside. Cui Jing has already been admitted to the show, and he will be taken in the autumn next year. It just so happens that Cui's family is from the capital, so this time he sent his sister to Beijing to get married, and he will also stay in the capital to prepare for next year's exam.

Several men in the Jiang family, except for Jiang Nanhua, who has already followed his father in business, Jiang Songhua and Jiang Yuhua are both studying, and they have a good conversation with Cui Jing. Although Jiang Bohua didn't understand this, he was very interested in Cui Jing's horse, and his eyes were looking straight at him, if Jiang Xi hadn't been holding him, he would have already run over to touch it.

Jiang Xi's family can't afford to raise horses in Wuxi, not to mention that there is a lot of water in the south of the Yangtze River, and boats are more commonly used than horses, although there are also rental carriages, but where can those horses compare to Cui Jing's healthy horse - the color is pure jujube red, the fur is smooth, and it shines like satin in the sun, and from time to time he shakes his head and shakes his mane, and Jiang Bohua's eyes follow.

Cui Jing was very interesting to watch. He hasn't gotten married yet-Governor Cui wants him to talk about a better family matter after he is lifted, so he is not in a hurry--occasionally when he sees their children at a friend's house, he thinks that the meat ball is strange and interesting, but because of the difference between inside and outside, it is not easy to get close, and now that he has met Jiang Bohua, it is rare to have the opportunity to get in touch with a small meat dumpling at such a close distance, and he feels very interesting.

"But the little boy wants to touch the horse?" Seeing Jiang Bohua stretching out his hand to the horse again, and being stopped by Sanqi again, Cui Jing asked with a smile.

Jiang Bohua didn't know that the little boy was calling him, but the horse understood, and immediately tapped his brain case hard: "Brother Bai touches the horse, ride!" ”

Cui Jing laughed: "If you want to ride a horse at such a young age, you must be a hero who defends your family and country in the future." He stretched out his hand to Jiang Bohua and said, "You're too young to ride a horse, but you can touch it, okay?" ”

Jiang Bohua threw himself into his arms without recognizing his life, and Cui Jing carried him to the side of the horse, his hands were not enough to touch, and while giggling, he had to turn back and shout into the brocade: "Sister, Ma Ma, come and touch Ma Ma!" ”

Inside the brocade curtain, Taohua is feeling a little bored. The Jiang family and the Cui family are not familiar with each other, and the door is much worse, although there are Jing family witty words in it, they are mostly flattering, or they just say things like the weather is really good today, which is really unnutritious to her.

In fact, the most attention of the ladies in the brocade is not Mrs. Cui, but Miss Cui. This is the future princess.

Cui Xiuwan, the eldest girl, is eighteen years old, and she can be regarded as an older girl in this era, but in Taohua's eyes, she is still young. She is of medium stature, because she has developed, although she wears a loose shirt, she still looks like she has a chest and waist, and with a beautiful goose egg face, she looks unique among a group of thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls, which provokes several girls in the Jiang family to secretly look at her from time to time.

"What is Miss Jiang doing looking at my sister?" The ladies were talking, and the second girl Cui suddenly asked Jiang Xinghua with a smile. She is only thirteen years old, and she will be about the same size as her sister in the future, but she is more beautiful than her sister. It is about the scorching sun of Fuzhou, and his complexion is slightly darker, but he is lined with a long gown embroidered with blue butterflies on a white ground, which looks particularly lively.

Jiang Xinghua was caught off guard by her question, and subconsciously sighed, and only after a moment did she say a little helplessly: "I, I'm looking at Miss Cui's good looks......"

Jiang Danhua lowered his head and rolled his eyes at Jiang Xinghua from an angle that others couldn't see. There are not many jewels on the heads of the Cui sisters, but all of them are inlaid with jewels and beads, which are extremely luxurious. In contrast, the Jiang sisters are much inferior, which makes Jiang Danhua regret a little - he shouldn't have worn the coral bead hairpin given by the Cao family today, and he should have worn the best jewelry.

There are several sisters in the Jiang family, and today they are wearing hairpins inlaid with red coral beads that Taohua called people to beat during the New Year, although the clothes are different, but those who are interested know that they are sisters at a glance. Jiang Danhua was reluctant to wear jewelry similar to Jiang Xinghua, but politely speaking, the jewelry given by the elders should be unveiled, if she didn't wear this, she should wear the pearl head sent by Jing's, and she was even more unhappy, so she had to retreat and take the second.

This coral bead hairpin is naturally not as good as the jewelry of the Cui family sisters, but Jiang Xinghua staring at other people's jewelry like this is really rude and humiliating. Even Yu Shi turned his face without a trace during the conversation and glared at Jiang Xinghua fiercely.

Taohua couldn't help but glance at this second Cui girl. The last word of the two girls in the Cui family is a graceful character, and the second girl of Cui is called Cui Youwan. However, judging from her temper, it can't match this euphemism. Jiang Xinghua may be rude, but it is nothing more than a few more glances at Cui Xiuwan, and Cui Youwan is rude enough to stab her in front of her.

Jiang Xinghua lowered her head, but she didn't mean to be ashamed. In fact, she didn't look at Cui Xiuwan's steps at all just now, and the reason why she looked at it a few more times was because she remembered that this future princess was infinitely beautiful when she married the fourth prince - to be exact, the king of Anjun in a few months - but in total it was only four years, and she died in the northwest depressed, and a year later, King An remarried Cui Youwan, continuing the good Qin and Jin of the royal family and the Cui family.

It is a big deal for the prince of the county to marry a concubine, and all the officials in the court know it, although Jiang Xinghua lives in a simple place, he has also heard Liu Zhijing say it. At that time, he praised King Anjun very much, saying that King Anjun continued to marry his wife and sister because the marriage with the Cui family was determined by the first emperor that year, after Cui Xiuwan's death, the Cui family was not powerful, and the king of Anjun could have married a more powerful princess, but he still chose Cui's daughter, which shows his filial piety.

At that time, Jiang Xinghua was ignorant, and she only knew that she could listen, but now when she saw the two girls of the Cui family, she suddenly felt like a world away, so that she couldn't help but look at it twice, but she was discovered by Cui Youwan.

Cui Xiuwan didn't care about Jiang Xinghua's gaze, to be precise, she was a little absent-minded when she got off the carriage, although she was also cold to the Jiang family, but she often asked and answered, and when she answered, although her eyes were looking at the person she was talking to, she had no focus, as if she didn't know where she was looking through this person.

At this time, when she heard Jiang Xinghua mention Bu Shao, she seemed to be shocked, and immediately reached out to touch it, and then smiled slightly: "Thank you for the compliment, the fourth girl." The coral hairpins of several sisters are also very good-looking, so everyone wears them, and at a glance, they know that they are sisters in the family. ”

Taohua was sitting opposite Cui Xiuwan, taking in the changes in her expression, and clearly saw that when Jiang Xinghua mentioned Bu Shao, Cui Xiuwan had a trace of obvious panic, but quickly suppressed it. And then she not only gently touched the step, but also inserted it into her hair again, obviously cherishing it very much, for fear of falling off.

Taohua didn't pay attention to what jewelry the Cui sisters were wearing, but now she couldn't help but look at Cui Xiuwan's head. She wore a high bun, so that the swaying was particularly conspicuous. Bu Shao itself is only silver, the whole is a branch of half-open magnolia flowers, the petals are inlaid with white jade, and the lower head hangs five hanging colored gemstone beads, a slight movement, the beads will shake gently, the sunlight refracted colorful light.

On the whole, the precious Cheng dù of this step shake is not as good as the red gold Huiluan hairpin on Cui Youwan's head, but the style is very special, Taohua glanced at it a few times, and suddenly felt that the magnolia flower looked quite like a horizontal cursive "Xiu" character.

There are also fancy styles of jewelry with words, but most of them are longevity words, not the elderly or young children only wear them, like this kind of show word step shake, Taohua is really the first time to see.

Is there any origin of this step? Taohua's thought swirled in her mind, and she immediately threw it away. It doesn't matter where it comes from, it has nothing to do with her. Gossip is such a thing, if others are willing to talk about it, then it's good to listen to it, and it's best not to inquire about it yourself.

But speaking of which, these conversations are really a bit boring, don't you say that you are going to go green, and you end up sitting in the tent and basking in the sun? Taohua was thinking about how to find an excuse to go out, when he heard Jiang Bohua calling him happily outside, he immediately pushed the boat down the river, said hello to Xiao Shi, and got up to go out of the tent.

Jiang Bohua was touching the horse, and after touching the back, he had to touch the horse's head. Cui Jing's horse was specially trained by someone in the army, and he had a gentle temper, not only was he not annoying, but he also used his nose to smell Jiang Bohua's little hand, which made Jiang Baihua hide his hand back, giggling like a little hen, and when he saw Taohua coming, he immediately shouted to her to touch it together.

Taohua blushed with excitement when she saw him, and Cui Jing was obviously a little struggling, so she hurriedly walked over and picked him up: "You are so old, why are you still relying on people to hug you?" ”

Jiang Bohua was still very excited, pointed to the horse and said, "Ma Ma!" Bai Ge'er touched it. ”

"How long have you been touching?" Taohua put him down on the ground, a little farther away from the horse, and greeted Cui Jing with a smile, "My brother is young, I don't know how to measure, and I am tired of Cui Gongzi." ”

Cui Jing is a scholar, although he is not the kind of person who is powerless, but he also feels sore when he holds this little fat dun for a long time. Especially Jiang Bohua has been twisting around, which is even more laborious. At this time, Taohua took the child over, Cui Jing was secretly glad in his heart, if it dragged on for a while, I am afraid he would have to take the initiative to put the child down, which would be a bit embarrassing: "Miss Jiang San is too polite, Brother Ling is innocent and very cute." ”

Taohua looked at Jiang Xi. It is said that Jiang Xi should take the child back at this time, but he was talking to Jiang Songhua without knowing what he was talking about, and he didn't care about it at all. Taohua only heard a few fragmentary words, mixed with words such as steamed wine and ginger, and couldn't help but shake her head helplessly, and turned her head to see Cui Jing smiling, so she had to smile again: "My father is obsessed with the study of herbal medicine, and when he says it, he forgets himself, which makes Cui Gongzi smile." ”

Cui Jing said with a smile: "Third Master Jiang is a man of temperament, and the third girl doesn't have to care." When they greeted each other just now, he noticed this Jiang San girl, and felt that among the girls in the Jiang family, she was the most outstanding. But after all, he is a foreign man, and he doesn't look at other people's female dependents much, so he just glanced at it hurriedly. Unexpectedly, at this time, because of Jiang Bohua, he was able to take a few more looks.

Taohua shook her head and smiled, bowed her head to Jiang Bohua and said, "Brother Cui has hugged you for so long and let you touch his horse, have you thanked Brother Cui?" ”

Jiang Bohua immediately hugged two chubby fists and saluted in a similar manner: "Thank you, Brother Cui." After thinking about it, he simply pulled off a small purse tied to his waist and handed it to Cui Jing, "Ma Ma let me touch it, and I will give it candy." It was a small purse he had brought for sugar and snacks, and if he went out, Taohua would allow him to put two pieces of sugar in it.

Cui Jing laughed, he really accepted it, and immediately poured the sugar out of it and sent it to the horse's mouth. Jiang Bohua's eyes widened, watching Ma put the two pieces of candy in his mouth with a roll of his tongue, although he was happy, he couldn't help but show a little distressed expression on his face, and Cui Jing couldn't help but laugh.

Taohua thinks that this Cui Jing is a very interesting person, but this year pays attention to a man and a woman at the age of seven different seats, although today is the Shangsi Festival, and a woman going out is not a showman, but it is not appropriate to talk to Cui Jing alone for a long time, so he thanked Cui Jing again, and then took Jiang Bohua's little hand and said: "You have touched the horse, you have to wash your hands before you can eat snacks." Let's go, wash my hands with my sister. ”

Because she had to stay outside for most of the day, Taohua prepared several wet handkerchiefs for Jiang Bohua to wipe his hands, which was a copycat version of wet wipes. However, this thing is not as convenient as real wipes, and it is not easy to carry around, so it is still resting on the carriage. Luckily, the carriage is not far away, so it's easy to get anything.

In such fine weather, the coachman tied his horses to the trees, and after feeding them with water, he saw that his masters would not leave for a while, and went to sit on the nearby meadow. Hengzhi is not too far away, and when you turn around, you can see the carriage, and if the master greets him, he can also hear it.

The carriage was hot from the sun, Jiang Bohua was too excited to play with the horse just now, and he was trapped by the heat at this moment. Kikyo wiped his little hands clean, and before he finished eating a taro ball, his eyelids began to fight. Momoka had no choice but to put him down in the seat and go to sleep, and she and Kikyo stood by the side, whispering while playing a fan.

Kikyo was dumbfounded by the grand scene on the bank of the Qujiang River today, but the feeling was the same as that of Taohua: "So many brocades, what a bad thing......"

Taohua smiled: "There is nowhere to spend money." ”

Kikyo opened his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head: "The slave doesn't like the capital. Girl, when are we going back to Wuxi? ”

Originally, it was decided that Mrs. Jiang would go back as soon as her birthday was over, but now Taohua has an extra task of sorting out the manuscript, and she has to complete it almost before she can go back. Taohua calculated in her heart and said, "It's about the same around May." But if it's too hot, you may have to put it off a little longer. "Jiang Bohua is still young, and he can't stand the rush on a hot day.

The master and servant were afraid of waking up Jiang Bohua, so they kept their voices very low, and as they were talking, the bellflower looked out of the gap in the car window and said, "Girl, the eldest girl of the Cui family is here." ”

The carriages of the two families were parked together, and Cui Xiuwan must have come to pick up things, but Taohua waved her hand indifferently after just a glance. Not to mention, it was warm in the carriage, and she also felt that her eyelids were a little fighting. Seeing her like this, Kikyo covered her mouth and smiled quietly, leaning against the wall of the carriage and closing her eyes.

It was quiet all around, so although Cui Xiuwan's voice was separated by a carriage, she could still be faintly heard when she came in: "Give him the letter?" ”

"Yes. But girl—" the maid's voice was anxious, and involuntarily raised a little, "the girl can't do that anymore...... Qin Tianjian has already sent the auspicious day, you, you will soon get married! ”

Momoka and Kikyo were suddenly gone, and the master and servant looked at each other, and their faces were not very good-looking. I knew that I should have said hello to Cui Xiuwan when she came over, but now it's good, it's hard to ride a tiger.

"I have my own opinions, you don't care. Also, if this gets the word out, you should know what the consequences will be! Cui Xiuwan's voice became stern.

Kikyo looked at Momoka with a look of "what to do". Momoka groaned for a moment, her eyes wandering back and forth in the carriage. If only there was a stone, she could quietly throw it out now to startle the Cui family's horse, as long as there was a little movement, Cui Xiuwan would naturally not say it again.

It's a pity that there is no such thing as a stone in the carriage, Taohua is worried, but she heard Cui Xiuwan's maid suddenly exclaimed: "Girl, look! Then, isn't that the Fourth Highness? ”

Four Highnesses? His Royal Highness is used to address - that is, the Four Princes? Taohua cautiously took a look out of the gap in the window, and sure enough, a few riders came from the road, and Cui Jing had already hurried over.

Momoka has good eyes - of course, talking about the eyes of her life. Since she crossed over, she has paid great attention to protecting her eyes, never embroidered or written when the light is bad, you must know that there are no glasses here, if she is like the previous life to make an 800 degree myopia, then she can only be half blind for the rest of her life.

Because his eyes are well protected, he can see far and clearly, so Taohua swept his eyes over the knights, and he felt a little familiar.

There were five people in that group, and the first thing Taohua recognized were two women in Hu clothes. That's right! The female rider who wore bright dark red flowers and a wide gold brocade was the maid who looked like a teacher in the Jiang family's medicine hall at that time, as if she was called a butterfly clothes. As for the one next to her who was wearing a green beard and a colorful waistline around his waist, it was her companion Cicada Yi at that time!

The woman who appeared in the medicine hall was actually the servant girl of the fourth prince, so Taohua had a faint premonition. Looking from the direction of the carriage, the leader of the group had already turned over and dismounted, and his figure was covered a little by the horses, but after he showed his side several times, Taohua could already identify that this person was the person who was called Gongzi at that time. In other words, the fourth prince once took the guards and maidservants to the Jiang family's medicine hall, and then was pushed back by her in person?

Momoka thought a lot at this moment. No wonder Dieyi ran to the Jiang Family Medicine Hall and was aggressive, at that time she thought she was worried about the injuries of her companions, now that they think about it, of course they already knew that the owner of the Jiang Family Medicine Hall was Jiang Fanghui's son, and Jiang Fanghui was the one who was convicted for not taking good care of Concubine Xian back then, so they clearly went to see the enemy, of course, they entered the door with a debt collection face! Fortunately, she was also in the medicine hall that day, and she saw that the fifteenth was not a sprain, otherwise I am afraid that they would even be able to smash the Jiang family's medicine hall under the ineffective reason of bone-punching, right? It's like the Lord of Nanhua smashing the Rejuvenation Hall......

And now? She did prove that the bone-setting wine was not invalid, but it was equivalent to slapping the fourth prince in the face. Now that they meet in the capital, what will the four princes do?

Taohua's head was chaotic. It is enough to see from the signboard of the Nanhua County Lord that these superiors will not tell anyone anything, and their identity and status are enough to crush others. Although the fourth prince is rumored to be an unpowerful prince, and he has not even been titled yet, he is a royal family member after all, and he is the younger brother of today! To deal with a small second room of the Jiang family, I'm afraid it won't take much effort.

"Girl, the fourth prince is here, and the girl should also go to see her." It was Cui Xiuwan's maid's voice that brought Taohua back from the chaos, "Look, Madame, the eldest young master, and the second girl, are all in—"

"I'm not going!" Cui Xiuwan said coldly, "If you go and tell your mother, you will say that I am a little uncomfortable, resting in the carriage, and I can't meet with His Royal Highness." As she spoke, she heard the sound of the wheels of the carriage rolling back and forth, obviously Cui Xiuwan had climbed into the car.

"Girl-" The maid died in a hurry, "after all, it is the Fourth Highness, your future husband......"

"Since you are engaged, it is not appropriate to see each other before you get married. He's been to the house once, and he's coming here again. ”

"Girl, didn't you see the Fourth Highness again that time?" The maid was already on the verge of crying. There is indeed a rule that unmarried couples should not see each other, but the other party is the prince! I didn't see it once, and now people are chasing me to the edge of the Qujiang River, and the girl is still missing, which will offend people.

"Since you shouldn't see it, of course you can't." Cui Xiuwan interrupted her impatiently, "He came to visit his mother and brother in Yili, and I also avoided it according to Lili, what is there to offend!" ”

"That's what I said, girl, but—" The maid was a girl, and she was embarrassed to say something. That's the girl, your future husband, if you make the other party unhappy, you may not be able to find fault with the ceremony, but that doesn't prevent him from colding you after marriage!