Chapter 13: Yu Mandarin Duck
After three consecutive days of sunny days, it seemed that some of the bitter cold of winter had dissipated, and the withered yellow plants in the yard were suddenly showing some tender green like spring. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Duanyue has been in the Murong Mansion since she arrived in Murong Mansion, and she has nothing to do every day like an idler. The wind went out every day with Murong Chui, and he also said what he was going to do from different Duanyue, and in the huge Murong Mansion, it seemed that only Duanyue and Cuiguo were the only two people.
Different from the laziness of Duanyue, Cuiguo is busy in and out every day. Although the group of ladies had been "driven away" a few days ago, the congratulatory gifts sent every day were still not few, and a vacant hut in the courtyard was almost filled. She wiped the fine beads of sweat from her forehead and said to Duanyue, who was lying on the table. "If the county lord finds it boring, why don't you go to the garden with the slave?"
Duanyue shook her head, staring blankly at the door in front of her, and sighed in the tone of an adult. "Alas! What is there to see in those flowers and plants, motionless, not popular at all! ā
"That'...... Slave and maid to talk to you? Cuiguo put down the rag she was holding in her hand and sat down beside Duanyue with a smile, looking at her with a smile. Okay? Okay? She grew her round eyes and looked at Duanyue with joy. But Duanyue was unmoved, she waved her hand, and her voice was still listless.
"Leave me alone, you can go to work."
When Cuiguo heard this, the smile on her face disappeared in an instant. "County Lord!" She pouted, her eyebrows tangled. "The county lord dislikes slaves!"
Duanyue finally propped up her head, she drooped the corners of her eyes, and comforted Cuiguo weakly. "It's not that I dislike you, it'sā" She sighed again before she said slowly. "This Murong Mansion is really boring, and my uncle won't let me go out, only you accompany me every day, how can I stand it!" She hung her head sullenly, and a layer of shadow seemed to be shrouded around her.
Although in the Murong Mansion, there is food and drink, and she lives such an enviable life of stretching out her hands to eat and open her mouth, but for Duanyue, it is like putting her in a cage.
There was a human voice outside the courtyard, Duanyue's ears immediately stood up like rabbits, Cuiguo also heard the voice, she hurriedly stood up, afraid that others would see that she was unruly and equal to Duanyue.
Walking briskly towards Duanyue's house, his eyes were met by Murong Chui, Yan Feng, Mrs. Yu, and a girl of a similar age to Duanyue hiding behind Mrs. Yu. Duanyue glanced at the two suspiciously, but he didn't dare to think about it, first said hello to Murong Tuo, said "uncle", and then nodded to Yanfeng and Mrs. Yu.
"This is Mrs. Yu," Murong Chui said first, and he turned sideways and pointed at the dignified and gentle Mrs. Yu. "I've heard about what you did that day, I'm afraid you've already seen Mrs. Yu."
Duanyue nodded calmly. "I've seen it." She held her head high and looked unyielding. Duanyue's gaze stayed straight on Madame. "Uncle, what are you going to do?"
Murong Chui didn't answer, but Yan Feng came to blame Duanyue first. "You still have the face to say! If it weren't for Mrs. Yu to speak for you and help you stop you, then the whole imperial city would know that you are an unruly girl, thank you Mrs. Yu! ā
Facing her brother's reproach, Duanyue held her breath for a while but found that she couldn't refute it, after all, she was indeed willful that day, so she had to bow her head to Mrs. Yu and said reluctantly. "Thank you, Mrs. Yu......" Mrs. Yu looked at Duanyue with a smile, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes were very bright.
"The county lord is really a concubine, and he is still a child." The second half of her sentence was said to the wind to help Duanyue excuse herself. "The concubine feels fond of the county lord when she sees it, probably because she is the same age as the daughter of the family." After that, she lowered her head and gently stroked the girl standing next to her, it seemed that this girl was Mrs. Yu's daughter.
This little girl looks about the same age as Duanyue, she is shorter, and she is much thinner. A small face was puffy, as if it was a porcelain doll standing in front of him. Seeing Duanyue looking at herself, she hurriedly shrank back to Mrs. Yu, extremely timid.
Murong Chui coughed lightly, interrupting everyone's conversation. His voice sank, and he put away the kindness on his face, and suddenly became a little more stern. "Next month is the Spring Festival, and the emperor has already issued an order to invite you to a state banquet. But you don't look like a county lord now! As he spoke, his voice suddenly rose by two points, and Duanyue was so frightened that he didn't move. Seeing that Duanyue was scared like this, Murong Chui still couldn't bear to soften his voice again. "I know that you grew up outside the gates, and you don't care about these etiquette. But now that they have titles, they can't be so so-so anymore, this is not only a loss of face for your Shi'an county lord, but also a loss for Xiaofeng and your father's face! ā
He reached out and took the girl beside Madame. "This is Yu Yuanyuan, the young lady of the Yu family. Before the state banquet, I asked Mrs. Yu to bring the mandarin duck to teach you the etiquette. Aren't you always shouting and bored, so you have a playmate with the mandarin duck to accompany you. ā
Yu Yuanyuan bowed to Duanyue obediently, opened his mouth in a soft voice, and said softly. "Mandarin Duck has seen Lord Shi'an."
Duanyue was very resistant to these rules and regulations in her heart, and her little face collapsed when she heard Murong Chui's words, but she was afraid that he would be angry, so she had to agree with all her might. Murong Chui finally smiled with relief when he saw this, he walked to Duanyue's side, and touched her head with a kind face, as if he was as gentle as his own child. "That's right."
He came today for such a thing, and after that, he explained some trivial things to Mrs. Yu and was about to leave, and the wind followed behind and saw that he would go with him. Duanyue hurriedly rushed to his side in three steps and two steps, firmly holding Yanfeng's arm, and said reluctantly. "Where is my brother going? Satsuki doesn't want you to go! ā
Faced with her sister's retention, Yan Feng's heart suddenly softened, and she was still angry at her willfulness and stubbornness, but now she can't say anything. The wind squatted down, and said to Duanyue. "I'm going out for a while."
"Where are you going?" Duanyue immediately became anxious. In this world, her only relative is Yan Feng, and the sense of security in her heart has long been gone. "Can I go with my brother?"
Yan Feng shook his head helplessly, he let go of Duanyue's hand, and explained softly to her word by word. "Although I am now Ninghou, I am just an empty name. I want to defend the country and make contributions like my father. ā
"Then brother, you ......"
"Uncle Murong took me to the barracks and started exercising from the bottom, and one day I will become a general like my father." The wind stood up, and Duanyue looked up at her brother's figure blankly. Her heart is entangled, and she is of course the happiest that her brother can have his own direction, but deep down she is afraid that the wind will leave like her father.
She looked at the wind with complicated eyes, and swallowed the words full of heart to her mouth. Looking at his departing back, Duanyue could only look up at his brother's back. A transparent barrier separates the two.
When the two of them leave, the room is the world of the women. Mrs. Yu is a careful person, she can see the loss on Duanyue's face, she just walked slowly to Duanyue's side and gently took her hand. "Why are the county lord's hands so cold, don't catch a cold." As he spoke, he led her to the table and sat down, and warmed her with both hands. "Why don't you get the charcoal up quickly." Mrs. Yu gave instructions to Cuiguo, but she stood as if she had lost her mind, and waited until Mrs. Yu said it for the second time before she panicked and went down to prepare.
Duanyue impatiently withdrew her hand from Mrs. Yu, she looked at Mrs. Yu and then at Yu Yuanyuan who was hiding on the side, and she was very upset. "What etiquette do you want to learn?"
"I'm not going to study it today." Mrs. Yu said with a smile, she looked extremely kind and gentle, which made Duanyue can't help but put away her temper. "The weather is so good, why don't we go out and release paper kites." After that, he took two paper kites from the people waiting outside the house, and it could be seen that they were in the shape of butterflies, but the paper was white and clean, and there were no patterns.
Duanyue glanced at it and looked back. "This paper kite is so shabby, I don't want to put it."
Yu Yuanyuan listened to her disgust, her little face turned red, and she hurriedly spoke. "This is a paper kite tied by my mother's own hands!" Duanyue squinted at Yu Yuanyuan, and didn't speak indignantly.
Obviously, Mrs. Yu was not angry by Duanyue's words, she put the two paper kites on the table, and then walked straight to the bookshelf, took off the pen and ink that had not been used for many years, and put them in front of Duanyue and Yu Yuanyuan, Wan'er said. "The paper patterns on the outside are the same, but they are not as good as the ones I painted." As he spoke, he handed the pen to Duanyue and Mandarin Duck. "Draw whatever you like."
When Duanyue was still holding the pen and struggling, she saw that the mandarin duck was already stained with ink, and boldly drew flowers and plants on the paper kite, and suddenly the desire to win in her heart was ignited. Mrs. Yu also added oil and vinegar and said. "If any of you draw well, I'll take her out tomorrow and play in the market." Such a sentence completely stimulated Duanyue, and she snorted coldly and picked up the pen and scribbled randomly.
By the time the cuiguo came back with warm carbon, there was no vacancy on the white paper kite. She stuck her head out and looked at their paper kites with interest. Yu Mandarin Mandarin is not a lady, the paper kite in front of the painting are fine landscapes, flowers and birds, although the age is still young and the climate is not enough, but there is still a trace of the atmosphere of the literati between the paintings. In contrast, Duanyue's paper kite is much rougher. It may be related to the environment in which it grows, and the paper kite is painted with a large piece of black, and then a circle is drawn, and the other vaguely recognizable is the branch of the tree.
Before she could figure out what this meant, Mrs. Yu suddenly realized. "Isn't this the sunset in the desert?" Cuiguo stared at the extremely abstract painting carefully, that black is the desert, that circle is the sun, so it is really a desert sunset.
Duanyue proudly raised her chin at Yu Yuanyuan, who seemed to know that her mother was going to favor her, so she was not moved. Sure enough, in the end, Mrs. Yu chose Duanyue's painting. The mandarin duck could only say to Duanyue. "My petty painting can't be compared with the desert of the county lord."
Cuiguo looked at the little trick between the two, and only felt embarrassed to be for Duanyue. This discerning person can see that Mrs. Yu and Yu Yuanyuan just wanted to make Duanyue happy and deliberately let it. But Duanyue didn't see through it, her happy eyes radiated brilliance, and she had already swept away the shadow just now.
Mrs. Yu looked at Duanyue, and her eyes showed kindness. Even if the emperor crowns the lord of Shi'an, in the final analysis, he is just a child.