Chapter Twenty-Eight: Travel
Cheng Jianniang has been at home for these days, eating and delivering food alone, and the coming and going is just the yard where Mrs. Chen and herself live, except for the first time, the family can't even see each other, let alone submit a set.
If you want to say that in addition to Mrs. Chen and Chen Shao and his wife, there are many intersections, which is the girl Danniang.
Looking at Cheng Jianniang, who also came over, the women were a little inexplicably restrained.
As a woman of the Chen family, although she is not as good as the princes and nobles, she is not an ordinary family, her manners and manners have been well taught, and she has reached the age where she can go on a diplomatic trip to the banquet, and she will be shy at most, and it is the first time that she feels restrained.
"Sister, where are you going?" Danniang asked, running over a few steps first.
"We're going to stop at the temple to enjoy the plum blossoms." A woman said, seemingly casually glancing at Cheng Jianniang.
"Are the plum blossoms blooming?" Danniang asked in surprise.
"Yes, and the Lamei that stopped the temple opened early this year." The woman said.
Danniang clapped her hands happily.
"I'm going too, I'm going too." She shouted, thinking of something and ran back to Cheng Jianniang's side, "Sister Cheng, you can go with you too." ”
Hearing her invitation, the women of the Chen family here were inexplicably nervous.
Cheng Jianniang did not speak.
"Cheng Niangzi, if you don't have anything to do, it's better to go together." A woman from the Chen family stood up and said.
Let a girl invite, how can people respond.
Cheng Jianniang looked at her.
"Okay." She nodded in reply.
Danniang was happy.
At this time, the cold rain in the south of the Yangtze River fell, with a little cold.
Cheng Liuniang stepped into the door, and saw Mrs. Cheng smiling and talking to the ladies in charge.
"Mother." She called. In front of the servants, the etiquette is decent.
Mrs. Cheng has been very happy lately. Beckoned her daughter to sit down.
"It still hurts the vitality of those few people, otherwise the shop will have more income." The steward's lady said. While putting away the account books.
"If you don't understand business, you are bad business." Mrs. Cheng said, "Then are they gone?" ”
"Although they let go of things, people still refuse to leave." The servant woman said.
"Then keep it, our family doesn't care about a few of them eating." Mrs. Cheng said, smiling slightly, "Let them also see how this shop is getting better and better in my hands." Let their aunt's dowry get thicker and thicker, our Cheng family is not a person who deliberately abuses things. ”
"It's just the account book in and out of the grange, the second lady is going to see it." A servant woman whispered.
Mrs. Cheng's face sank.
Although he was unwilling, the second master Cheng still had to go to work as scheduled, and the second Mrs. Cheng used the excuse of being close to home, this time she did not take her children with her, but stayed at home, saying that she was serving her mother-in-law wholeheartedly and raising her children.
The people from the Zhou family may be because they are not familiar with the place. Bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, seeing that the Cheng family had not let go, they had no interest, and they no longer competed for the dowry. But the people refused to go, saying that they would see it with their own eyes, so that the dowry of the aunt and grandmother would not be ruined.
The Cheng family was very happy. Because the haze of Cheng Er's unsuccessful career has been slightly diluted.
"Then give it to her." Mrs. Cheng said, "It's almost the end of the year. A few days ago, the old lady talked about the second master's warm clothes, and the account has been settled in the past few days. You take out a few people to accompany Mei Xiang in front of the old lady to send it off. ”
Mei Xiang in front of the old lady? The servants glanced at each other and exchanged a look that you know and I understand.
"Mei Xiang is good at needlework, and she is steady, go over there to see how well the second master is placed, otherwise the old lady will not be at ease." Mrs. Cheng said.
The servants bowed their heads in response, looked at Cheng Liuniang, who was already impatient while sitting on the side, packed up their things and quit and left.
"Mother, are the ten kinds of dim sum I want?" Cheng Liuniang hurriedly asked.
Mrs. Cheng seemed to remember this and called the servant woman to ask.
"Say, because there are a lot of people in Layue, they are all booked in advance, so..."
"So there's still no one for us, isn't it?" Cheng Liuniang took over the conversation and asked, sat up straight, turned her head and grabbed Mrs. Cheng's arm, "Mother, did you see it, they did it on purpose, no matter how early we said it, there was no us!" ”
Mrs. Cheng was also a little surprised.
"Sure enough?" She asked.
"No, madam, it's really in short supply, and the mystical dim sum on the market has been fried to ten taels of silver a box." The servant woman bowed her head and said.
"So expensive?" Mrs. Cheng was even more surprised, when did this mystical view become like this?
Only then did she feel that the last time she saw that the Mysterious Viewer seemed to be a long time ago, and she couldn't even remember what it looked like.
"Haven't you ever come to pick up the offering?" She asked.
Don't you see her when you come to the house?
"Don't give it to her." Cheng Liuniang raised her eyebrows and shouted.
"Madam, Xuan Miaoguan, except for the first time, after that, I never came to take the offering." The servant woman bowed her head and said.
Ten taels of silver for a box of snacks, how many people rush to ask for it, who cares about this sesame oil money.
Mrs. Cheng's expression was slightly condensed, and Cheng Liuniang bit her lower lip.
I see, it's no longer under the eaves, who wants to bow their heads!
"It doesn't matter." Mrs. Cheng smiled slightly, "Then go buy it, isn't it just to spend more money." ”
Cheng Liuniang sat down suddenly.
"It's too late, I can't buy it now!" She was so angry that she wanted to cry, "I can't get a snack to enjoy the plums, I want to be laughed at by them!" It's so easy that fool is gone, no one makes fun of us about this, why can't we get out! ”
"My son." Mrs. Cheng was busy hugging her daughter distressedly, "This is ridiculous, you are both talented and beautiful, one of the best in Jiangzhou City, waiting for you to play with them, where will you underestimate you, Liuniang, the only person who is made fun of can only be this person, but not because of something, such as your stupid sister, is it a dim sum meeting, do you treat her as a fairy?" ”
Cheng Liuniang couldn't help but laugh, and hurriedly pulled down her face again.
"Look, you know the Tao too, don't you? Therefore, it will only be because you are a person, but nothing can do it, rest assured, rest assured. Mrs. Cheng smiled and helped her daughter wipe her tears, "Our sixth mother is the best, who doesn't like you, those who don't like you are jealous of your good." ”
Cheng Liuniang was depressed and laughed.
"Then, Mother, I'm going to use that purple gold jewel." She hugged Mrs. Cheng's arm with a little coquettishness and said.
"Okay." Mrs. Cheng smiled and nodded, and stroked her daughter's shoulder dotingly.
Mother and daughter are happy indoors.
When they heard that their daughters invited Cheng Jianniang to enjoy the plum blossoms, Chen Shao and his wife, who are also parents, were a little nervous.
For a while, I felt a little bit like my daughter could go out for the first time.
What to wear, what to bring, who to follow, whether it is hot or cold, who said the wrong thing, being slighted and so on, I don't know whether I agree or not, and finally tell Mrs. Chen.
"I wonder what she was thinking?" Mrs. Chen asked.
Old lady Chen laughed.
"What do you think? You're thinking too much. He laughed, "She's a cardamom and should be happy." ”
Chen Shao and his wife were a little stunned, and a little laughable, yes, they all forgot that this woman was actually only fourteen or fifteen years old, not an old dead wood.
"Let a few more people in the family, and let their brothers go to two to send them off." Chen Shao said.
Cheng Jianniang changed her clothes, put on a cloak and came out with a maidservant, and saw two more women from the Chen family waiting.
"This is the tenth mother, this is the twelfth mother, this is the eighteenth mother..."
Danniang enthusiastically introduced them one by one, or with a little restraint, or pretending to be a little indifferent, the women greeted Cheng Jianniang one by one.
Get to know each other, and the next thing is to talk.
"The lady's sleeve warmer is so good." The elder Shi Niang was the first to speak.
It is most appropriate and appropriate to talk about clothing and jewelry.
"Yes." Cheng Jianniang nodded.
"It's not too cold today, and it's better to have warm sleeves than a hand stove." Another woman said.
The women catered to each other, and the atmosphere became pleasant and relaxed, and a group of people started to walk out, and when they reached the second gate, they saw that in addition to the four carriages, there were six or seven people waiting on horseback.
"Why are there so many people?" The daughters of the Chen family were taken aback.
Immediately, all kinds of cloaks, handsome and handsome, and the gentlemen of different ages all turned their heads.
"Father told us to send you there." They said babblingly.
It's normal for sisters in the family to go out to play, and brothers pick each other up, but there is no need for so many brothers. (To be continued......)