Chapter 7 The Feast of the Hung Gate
The next day was a public holiday, and Yun Ziyu was ready to sleep well, but Suzuka, who was beside her mother, came to invite her early in the morning. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info she was upstairs when she heard Su Xue below asking, "Sister Suzuka, why are you here?" ”
Suzuka's voice came: "Mrs. asked me to invite the fourth lady to come over and talk." "Ziyu is the only daughter in the family, because there are three brothers in front of her, and the family is used to calling her Miss Four.
Su Xue invited Suzuka to drink tea, and said, "My sister sent a little girl over to say it, why bother to run it myself." ”
Suzuka smiled: "I don't dare to neglect what my wife ordered." Besides, who doesn't know that our fourth lady is the eyeball of a wife. ”
Su Xue's giggling sound came from below: "Sister Suzuka will sit for a while, and I'll go and tell Miss to get up." ”
When she came up, Ziyu was already dressed. It was about the day before yesterday that I really suffered from some wind and cold, and I didn't sleep well in the past two days, my body was a little weak, Ziyu leaned listlessly on the bedside sofa, and when she saw Su Xue coming in, she asked lazily, "What is Mom looking for me to do?" ”
Su Xue shook her head: "Sister Suzuka didn't say it." ”
The Yunjia Garden was originally the private residence of an outsider in the previous dynasty, and later the old lady of the Yun family took over when he was the salt patrol envoy in Jiangnan, and transformed it, and it has become a garden-style mansion with a combination of Chinese and Western styles in the hands of Yundekai. The courtyard of several entrances before and after, with pavilions and pavilions in the middle, rockery ponds and marshes. The whole courtyard is planted with strange flowers and plants, this season, the autumn chrysanthemum is in full bloom, the osmanthus is blooming, the breeze passes through, a strong fragrance is fragrant.
Mrs. Yun's upper room is in the northwest corner of the entire Yunjia garden, and China has been respected by the north since ancient times, so the Son of Heaven and the princes see the courtiers, or the doctors always sit in the north and face the south. However, the Mediterranean-style small building of Ziyu is in the southeast corner of the entire courtyard, and you need to walk through the entire Yunjia Garden to get to the upper room.
Mrs. Yun's yard was planted with a lot of silver silk crab claws, most of which bloomed at this time, and looked like a sea of snow from a distance. Ziyu liked it when she saw it, and couldn't help but bend down and fold a few flowers and hold them in her hand.
When her mother saw it, she stood on the danzhu at the door and teased her: "Where did the wild girl come from?" The good ones want to be thieves! ”
Ziyu was not annoyed when she heard this, and stepped forward with a smile: "Didn't I borrow flowers to offer Buddha?" As he spoke, he went into the house and took a porcelain vase of Yuan blue and white on the Duobao Pavilion, and instructed Su Xue to fetch half a bottle of water and insert the silver silk crab claws into it.
Ziyu has learned flower arrangement, and it is interesting to fiddle with it a few times. Mrs. Yun looked at it and laughed: "We are so clever in our rumors, I am really reluctant to marry you." ”
Zi Yu's face turned red, and he said angrily: "What did Mom say? Besides, I'm going back! ”
Mrs. Yun looked at her with a smile: "It's normal for a woman to get married!" Once upon a time, a girl as old as you would have been running all over the ground. "Mrs. Yun was only fourteen years old when she married into the Yun family, and she gave birth to the eldest young master at the age of sixteen. Now Ziyu is eighteen years old
Ziyu didn't want to continue discussing this issue with her, and asked, "What's the matter with Mom looking for me?" ”
Speaking of this, Mrs. Yun frowned slightly, it was natural to call her over so early in the morning. Although the Yun family is still patriarchal, Mrs. Yun does not restrict the children from going to greet her sooner or later, and only goes to her yard to sit and talk with her when she is free. Mrs. Yun walked over and picked up a gilded red invitation card on the long table and handed it to her. This invitation is very magnificent, the whole body is red, inlaid with gold leaf, look at the gold on it, I am afraid it can be worth two oceans.
Zi Yu looked very curious: "Who is so broad?" Is it time for a happy event? ”
Mrs. Yun said, "I also think it's a little strange, the Overseer's Mansion has no contact with us......
Yun Ziyu opened the invitation card, and saw the beautiful hard script on the title page: Mr. Yun Dekai, Mrs. and Miss Yun Dekai are invited to visit the Wyatt Hotel at 6 o'clock tonight.
is a very simple sentence, and the inscription says that Jiang Shixun is waiting with his family. It should be the handwriting of the staff, but the writing is honorific, polite and strong, and this extravagant invitation can be regarded as enough to give Yun De face.
But what's going on with this "young lady"? Shouldn't you write "young master"? Her eldest brother is helping to take care of her family's business, and there is no reason to invite her over the eldest brother.
Ziyu suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart, and she hesitated to tell her mother about it.
Mrs. Yun didn't seem to notice her strange appearance, and said, "Jiang Dujun is notoriously selfless, and he doesn't sell anyone's face. When he first arrived, your father invited him to a banquet three times and twice, but he pushed him down. I don't know why this time ......" After a pause, she said again, "See? You were also invited above. ”
Ziyu nodded: "This is strange, if you want to invite the eldest brother, you should also invite the eldest brother!" Why did you invite me? ”
Mrs. Yun thoughtfully: "I heard that Jiang Dujun has an only son...... She immediately came back to her senses, knowing that these words were not suitable to say in front of her daughter, so she changed her mouth and said, "Probably to feast your father, by the way." Anyway, the Overseer is invited, and I can't help but appreciate it, so I called you here just to see what kind of clothes are more appropriate for today. ”
Zi Yu knew that it was useless to worry at this time, since the Overseer had made a post, he was going to go anyway, and showing a displeased look at this time would only make her mother worried. So the mother and daughter happily went to pick out clothes. Ziyu helped her mother choose a long-sleeved cheongsam embroidered with rich and noble peonies, and put on a black shawl embroidered with the same peony, which was very dignified and elegant. Later, he helped his mother pick out a set of necklaces and earrings with Nanyang gold beads, and a transparent jade bracelet on her wrist.
Graceful and luxurious, but not tacky.
Mrs. Yun was very satisfied with her daughter's vision, and said with a smile: "In the end, I have stayed in the ocean, and my vision is unique." ”
Ziyu turned her face sideways and coquettishly: "Is my mother praising me, or is she praising yourself?" Who doesn't know you're notoriously discerning? ”
Mrs. Yun also laughed and said, "Don't wear a cheongsam today, just wear that pink-purple lace skirt." ”
"I think the blue one with a bow looks a little better." "The skirt is a gray-blue brocade embroidered with small flowers on the upper body, and an aqua blue skirt underneath, which is a little less eye-catching than the delicate color of pink and purple.
"It's up to you, who made us rumors that we are naturally beautiful, and we look good in anything!" Mrs. Yun was in a good mood, hugged her daughter and smiled.
Ziyu said to Suzuka and Su Xue, who were waiting on the side: "Look at it, my mother never forgets to praise herself at any time. ”
Mrs. Yun said: "You bad girl, you have come to tease your mother several times, see if I don't take food to plug your little mouth!" With that, he nodded dotingly on Zi Yu's forehead.
After having lunch at Mrs. Yun's, Ziyu went back to take a nap, then got up and changed the clothes she had prepared, and got into the car first. The car went around in the alley outside for most of the time before it reached the west gate of the Yun family, picked up his parents, and the family drove to the Overseer's Mansion.
Yun Dekai was wearing a formal suit today, and when he got out of the car, Mrs. Yun held his arm, while Yun Ziyu held the other side.