Chapter 45: The Marriage Contract (3)
After walking for about a stick of incense, I suddenly saw two big stone lions squatting in the north of the street, a beast-headed gate, and the door knocker was polished with crystal light. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć There is a plaque on the INFO gate, and the plaque has four big characters in the big book "Yingwu Marquis Mansion". A few gorgeously dressed doormen sitting in front of the door greeted them and said with a smile: "I've seen General Li, all the officials, but have you welcomed the girl of the Zhu family back?" General Li smiled and said, "I am fortunate to live up to my mission." Has the general returned home? "If you go back to the general, the master is still in the palace." The doorman replied. General Li nodded, everyone dismounted, and their own doorman led the horse to the stable behind the Hou Mansion.
A woman walked to the sedan chair and said: "Mrs. heard that the girl's jade pendant was pawned in the city, so she has been worried about the girl. Zhu Qingheng said: "It should be like this." I have a friend who came with me, and I have to arrange another room in your house. The woman smiled and said, "Girl, rest assured, the guest room has already been prepared for Luo Xianggong." ā
So the sedan chair was lifted up again, and it came to a place where it fell in front of the hanging flower door. Several mothers-in-law came up to open the sedan curtain and helped Qingheng get off the sedan chair. Zhu Qingheng glanced at the courtyard and saw that the houses here were exquisite, extending in all directions, well-built, magnificent, and there were trees, mountains and rocks everywhere. The mother-in-law who spoke before led Zhu Qingheng into an upper room, and Zhu Qingheng entered the room, but only saw three or four maids talking and laughing, but Mrs. Ling was not seen. One of the girls in a pink shirt greeted her and said with a smile: "I wish the girl is here, please sit down, Madame has been unwell for the past few days, it is inconvenient to see guests, and she is really worried about the girl, so I invited the girl to come." So please Zhu Qingheng to sit down. Another green-shirted girl walked into the inner bedroom, and Zhu Qingheng heard her voice coming indistinctly: "Madam, I wish the girl is here." ā
Zhu Qingheng heard a few coughs, and then a voice softer than the dong flute sounded: "Yes, cough cough, it's a pity that I can't get out of bed with this body, please come over to Miss Zhu." The green-shirted girl answered, and went out and said, "Girl, please come into the bedroom and speak." ā
Zhu Qingheng nodded, and several maids surrounded her into Mrs. Ling's bedroom. There is a carved screen bed in the window in the room, a pair of carved black lacquer curved foot incense cases are set up on both sides, the left side of the case is a black smoke frozen stone tripod, a thick plum fragrance is lit on the tripod, the right side of the case is a beautiful person of Xingyao, and there are a few lilies inserted in the goblet. On the four crescent stools on the west side, there are apricot yellow flower stool cushions. There is a beauty couch on the east side, the couch is set up with a chain brocade backrest, a pillow, a silver and red satin mattress and a blue brocade quilt that rains over the sky, there is also a pair of high cases on both sides, and there is a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the case.
The white silk tent of the carved screen bed was lowered, and a slender figure appeared from behind. I heard Mrs. Ling say: "I am not feeling well now, this tent will not be opened, and you will suffer this crime if you are harmed." Let's just say a few words. Zhu Qingheng sat on the side and asked, "What's wrong with my aunt?" Mrs. Ling said: "Ahem, it's an old problem, and the wind and cold epidemic in the city in the past few days has become even heavier." He added, "Hou Ye and I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen to the Zhu family, fortunately you escaped, it's okay." Good boy, tell me how you got from Gusu to Luoyang. ā
Zhu Qingheng wiped away her tears and said: "I happened to be outside that day, and after hearing about my family on the street, I hurried home, and at that time my house was in ruins, and my family had gone. Later, I took a boat to Luoyang on the North-South Canal, and the boat docked in Kaifeng, but I met a bad guy. It may be that my family blessed me with the spirit of heaven, I fled to the woods, and later met Brother Luo, so I came to Luoyang by luck. ā
Mrs. Ling said gently: "Good boy, ahem, you have suffered. You and Jue'er are an unmarried couple, you just have to treat the Hou Mansion as your own home, and when the Hou Ye comes back in the evening, let's have a meal together. Ji'er hasn't gotten out of school yet, or it's already here. ā
Zhu Qingheng said: "Auntie, Qingheng...... Qing Heng had never heard his father and mother mention this family matter before, and he was really scared. I don't know how my father met Master Xie, and how did he mention the betrothal? When she finished speaking, her face turned red. Because she was a lady, at least in front of them, she had to act like a lady. And how can a lady take the initiative to talk about her own family affairs.
Mrs. Ling said, "You are so young, it is common for Ling Zun not to mention this. After all, who would have thought what would happen later. This marriage is advocated by Hou Ye, so let's wait for Hou Ye to come back in the evening, you can ask him in person. ā
Zhu Qingheng was suspicious in his heart, and now he could only agree, and said a few more words, seeing that Mrs. Ling was tired, he left with interest. On the way, I smelled a little cold plum fragrance on my body. Mrs. Ling named the two second-class girls beside her Chunjun and Yan Zhizhi and Zhu Qingheng. When he arrived at the guest room with crape myrtle flowers in front of the door, Chunjun smiled and said, "The hot water has been prepared, do you want to freshen up now?" Zhu Qingheng also smiled: "It's troublesome for the two sisters." So he bathed and freshened up, and changed into the clothes and jewelry that he had prepared.
Zhu Qingheng took a look in the mirror, she hadn't seen herself in this costume for a long time, and she felt a little novel. Yan Zhi smiled beside him: "The girl is originally a fairy-like character, and this flying fairy bun is really worthy of the girl." Zhu Qingheng said: "What Sister Yanzhi said is embarrassing to me. By the way, where does Brother Luo, who came with me, live? I want to go see him. ā
Chunjun said: "Luo Xianggong lives in the West Courtyard, the girl wants to go now?" Zhu Qingheng said: "It's still early for dinner, and it's too late to go." Chunjun said: "Then I'll accompany the girl to a trip, and Yanzhi will guard the house here." If the old lady comes to look for her, she will send a little girl to find us. So Zhu Qingheng went to the west courtyard with Chunjun, which is specially designed for Xie Hou Ye to receive foreign guests and a courtyard for male guests and door guests to rest, although it is not as quiet and elegant as the east courtyard, it is better than the magnificence. Zhu Qingheng saw a person lying on the eaves with his legs crossed from a distance, and when he got closer, he saw that it was indeed Luo Chuan. Seeing that although he had been freshened, he was still wearing the cloth robe, and said with a smile: "No wonder the world says that men always have to add a stinky word." ā
Luo Chuan lay on the eaves and sighed, muttering, "I just took a bath, and someone actually said that I stink." ā
Zhu Qingheng laughed out loud and said, "Then come down quickly, let me smell the fragrance or the smell." ā
Luo Chuan smiled and fell to the ground like a piece of paper.
Zhu Qingheng held his hand, and while quickly writing the words "I" and "Fang" on his palm, he said with a smile: "I don't change my clothes, I'm not afraid of lice biting me." ā
Luo Chuan said: "Anyway, I have a lot of blood, and it's nothing to be sucked a few times." Where do you see lice running to? I'm going to catch it. ā
Zhu Qingheng said with a smile: "There are flowers and plants in the yard here, maybe the lice also dislike you, so they will run under the flower trees such as crape myrtle to smell the flowers." ā