Qiao'er unconsciously looked in the direction of her finger, and saw a carriage with a green silk canopy decorated with great luxury, jogging from the end of the road, and in front of the carriage sat a young man who was driving horses and a big girl who was a young man. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Qiao'er looked at the little guy carefully, wearing a two-blue crepe robe, a cool hat, and a horsewhip more than two feet long and decorated with red tassels. The girl next to her is also Zhou Zheng, wearing a light green Hangzhou Luo gown skirt, covered with a white gauze gown, and a color of pine gauze pants are exposed underneath. Two half-forked feet rested diagonally on the front axle side of the carriage, swaying up and down with the bumps.

I also saw that there was another carriage behind the carriage, but it was more plain, and the curtain of the carriage was rolled up halfway, and it was enough to see that there were three or four elderly servants, coarse cloth and gray clothes, not much showy, but ordinary people. Qiao'er said: "Look at this posture, it's a bit magnificent, but I don't know which family's eldest lady she is." ”

Qing'er heard the words and said: "What kind of young lady is she, but Lao Tzuniang has been stained with the light of her ancestors in the past two years, and she has done some unsightly business to develop." I'm not afraid that my sister will hear the joke when I say it, this Miss Du, whose real name is Du Baifang, is the only daughter of Du Gongtong, the master of Du Gongtong in our village, and people in our village think that Du Gongtong eats inside and out, and calls him Du Goutou behind his back, Du Baifang is about the same age as his sister, but if he is compared to his sister, it is really a heaven and an earth. Not to mention anything else, just talking about how to behave in the world, this Du Baifang is completely hateful. ”

Qiao'er wondered: "What hateful thing can she do?" ”

Qing'er bent over and said: "Let's talk about the begging festival last year, the folk have the custom of wearing seven-hole threads on the placket on July 7 since ancient times, begging for weaving skills. But just because their Du family is in the needlework business, this Miss Du issued an order, and on that day, unless it is the embroidery girl on their Zhuangzi who can have this custom, the daughters of other families are not allowed to wear needles on the placket. Worried that everyone would not be satisfied, or secretly begging behind her back, this Miss Du didn't care about the identity of the daughter of the boudoir, and took people out to inspect and walk around on the day of Qixi Festival, but whenever she saw whose daughter did needlework, she ordered someone to tear it off and trample it under her feet. Sister Fang, who lives behind our house, let her catch it right because of her carelessness, and almost didn't tear her placket in front of the whole village, so ashamed that Sister Fang hid at home for half a year before she dared to come out to meet people, and she got married hastily in less than a year. Sister, look, this person is not hateful? ”

Qiao'er nodded secretly: "In this way, it is a generous attitude to be forgiving and forgiving, like her, to be favored and humiliated, not only to lose her identity, but also to be really hateful and hateful." ”

Qiao'er smiled: "Sister really can't look past it, these are still good, and there are even more outrageous things." Miss Du knew that her status was not as good as the Zhou family, so she had the heart to please, and she was the same in the village, and when she arrived in front of Mr. Zhou and Mrs. Zhou, she became another look. I heard my brother say that Miss Du once followed her mother to greet Mrs. Zhou, and just outside the second gate, she let the little guy who ran out of the house hit her, and Miss Du was also indiscriminate, and slapped the little guy with her hand, so that it was too late to make amends for the little guy. That's it, when she saw Mrs. Xiang, she wronged the little guy who bluffed her, which made Mrs. Zhou angry, and someone beat the little guy and drove her out far away. Later, the people in the door spread the news, and everyone knew the truth, but in front of Mrs. Zhou, everyone didn't dare to say much, for fear that her old man would annoy her. ”

Qiao'er shook her head helplessly, there is a way that it is difficult for Qing officials to cut off family affairs, and Jiafu was not a mess back then, the outside did not know the details of the inside, and the inside did not know the outside situation.

Squatted in the bushes with bated breath for a while, until the sound of the horse's hooves faded away, and then Qiao'er and Qing'er held hands with each other and went home. The clothes in the basin were already hanging on the rope, and when they came back, they smiled and asked where they went, and Qing'er told her about meeting Du Baifang. Grandma said: "You should stay away from her, that girl's temper is really not welcome, if you are alone, it would be enough, now Sister Qiao is also here, don't let her disturb Sister." ”

Qing'er smiled: "That's what I mean, that Miss Du is angry, her father and mother don't recognize her, and she has always run rampant in the township." It's strange today, and it's not an auspicious day, how did their family want to travel? ”

Grandma said: "What do you know, in April, Lixia, I won't come out to play for a few days, and when the sun is noon, who still has the heart to come out to play." But the two of you still have something to explain, and you're tired of playing for half a day, so go back to the house and sit with your mother for a while, she has only been awake for a few days, and she is panicking at this hour, so I can comfort her with you here. ”

Qing'er and Qiao'er went obediently, and grandma watched the sun rise, and it was inconvenient to stay in the yard, so she moved a small stool to pick leeks under the eaves of the porch, and prepared to chop stuffed dumplings at noon.

However, it was said that the carriage of the Du family drove out of the dirt road, and it was not as Qing'er said, but went straight to the Zhou Mansion. The girl sitting in front of the car was Du Baifang's maid Man'er, seeing that the carriage was about to arrive in front of the Zhou Mansion, she hurriedly turned around and asked, "Girl, should we get off here, or get off in front of Yimen?" ”

A coquettish voice came from the curtain: "No need, just stop here, don't get forward, send someone to inform those little guys, and say that I have come to greet Madame." ”

Man'er agreed, so he asked the driver to stop the carriage and horses at a distance of a shot from the main entrance, jumped out of the car himself, and called the coachman to report to the door. Mrs. Zhou was talking with the maids and ladies about the colorful gourds, heavenly master charms and other disgusting things to be used under the Dragon Boat Festival, when Qingping came in from outside the door and said, "Madam, the little maid on the second door said that Miss Du came to greet you outside." ”

Mrs. Zhou smiled: "It's Bai Fang's girl, right?" ”

Apple smiled and said that it was exactly, and Madame hurriedly asked Sydney to bring someone to invite her in, and said to Apple, "You have everything I told you?" ”

Qingping smiled: "Everything Madame ordered is ready, the five-color paper for making colored gourds and the impatiens for dyeing nails are all ready, just waiting for Madame to see it." There is also a celestial master talisman who also ordered the little guys to tell the guys in the shop, so that they could write it out early. It's just that the zongzi leaves have not been bought, I think that thing to buy the day before the Dragon Boat Festival is also to make, buy early, although it is easy to soak in water, but the taste has changed, not as fresh and sweet as the rice dumplings that are bought now. ”

Mrs. Zhou saw that what she said was reasonable, nodded and smiled, everyone knew that Mrs. Qing Ping treated Qing Ping differently from other girls, and since Qing Ping came, she was gentle and dignified, and she loved it a lot, so she rushed to praise at this moment: "In the end, it was trained by Madame's hands, and there is really nothing to say, look at this little mouth, as soon as she opens her mouth, she will tell her everything by herself." I can't complain that my wife doesn't talk about the orange girl now, and she dares to find another one. ”

Mrs. Zhou smiled again and again: "This girl is still recommended by Aunt Guo, not my princess who sells melons - she sells herself and boasts, and there is really no one in the house who can compare to her. Just for her alone, I don't know how much I don't know. ”

Seeing this, Apple hurriedly said that she didn't dare, and everyone laughed and said what she didn't dare. Just then, Sydney had already welcomed Du Baifang in, and Apple stepped aside and looked up:

The first was a cardamom age girl, not more than fifteen years old, wearing a lotus-colored embroidered folded branch magnolia flower collar jacket, a white gauze skirt below, with a longevity lock on the neck, and a butterfly love flower dot emerald hanging bead hairpin on the head. It is the dark clouds and sideburns, the pink and cheeks, the plump and beautiful, and the attitude is pleasant.

Apple couldn't help but sigh in her heart, what a pretty and brittle person.