Mrs. Ji was old and couldn't stand the bumps, so the carriage stopped and went all the way. The official road is wide, and there are no big trees on both sides to shade it, but fortunately, when the carriage is running, the wind blows, and it is not stuffy. After walking like this for a day, I walked more than 200 miles out of the capital, and it was getting dark.

The group stayed at a Yuanfu inn in Yunyi County. When the shopkeeper learned that the nobleman was staying, he cleared the entire inn and recruited a guy to wait outside the store early.

"Tonight is a little simpler, take the necessary use, the rest of the boxes are sealed and guarded, tomorrow at three o'clock on time, you are waiting for the girls and masters." Mrs. Ji instructed the girls.

"Yes, madam, you should rest early, and the rest of the maidservants will arrange it." Yan Yan called the coachman to go to the stable, fed the horses, and hurried tomorrow, and ordered the shopkeeper to prepare hot water for food. The sisters have been pampered in the house, and they have been exhausted after a day's carriage, so they just need to clean up and rest early.

Yingning walked into the upper room, the inn is not big, but fortunately it is clean. The table in the room, the dressing table, the soft couch, the screen, the bath bucket, and the objects are complete. After eating two mouthfuls of pureed yam porridge, Ying Ning just wanted to take off her clothes and take a warm bath.

When the fog rose behind the screen, Yingning's muscles and bones relaxed, and she groaned comfortably. No longer think about the veil and the eyes......

On the second day, before dawn, a mother-in-law knocked on the door outside, urging the girls to hurry up, so as not to miss the trip. Mrs. Ji slept lightly, got up early every day, woke up early in the morning and evening, and had to recite the scriptures for half an hour before going to bed, and when the girls were ready to go out of the room with the yarn, Mrs. Ji and Mrs. Ji had already made good breakfast.

For the sake of simplicity, everyone eats together, lest the girls have to be sent to the house one by one, and they have to be brought to the kitchen. After breakfast, the next person cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks together, the girls served tea, and the girls took a sip and cleared their mouths.

After another day, at noon on the third day, Yingning was still resting in the carriage, and heard the next person come to report: "The girl is tidying up, and Ningde Summer Resort is ahead." ”

Yingning opened the curtain, and a few blue-tiled houses faintly appeared in the mountains in front of her, which were scattered and scattered, occupying most of the mountain.

Entered the main courtyard, all the way is the murmuring of flowing water, the house is built according to the topography, the predecessors thought ingeniously, a pavilion and a pavilion on the first floor rise with the mountain, the mountain stream enters the scene, there is a pavilion in the scene, and there is a tree in front of the pavilion. There is less heat in summer, and the mountain wind blows with a trace of cool water.

As soon as Ying Ning touched the soft couch, she didn't want to move.

The villa is taken care of by the Wang steward's family on weekdays, and there are more than a dozen girls and rough men in the village, and the seventh sister is assigned a girl and a mother-in-law.

There are carved bonsai and coral pearl bottles on the edge table of Nanmu; In the center of the pavilion, a small pot of painted pottery was moved, and water lily koi was raised; The four treasures of the study, the colored porcelain pen rest, the red sandalwood ruler, and the bronze incense burner are spread out in turn; The silk painting was inserted into the blue and white vase, and a pair of characters were selected and hung on the wall next to the desk; Wooden combs, jewelry, rouge, and gouache are all arranged; The bed was covered with a veil...... When he was so busy with his work, Qingliang Pavilion finally had a look. The maid in the wife's room came to report that she had to go to her grandfather's house tomorrow.

At night, the house was smoked with wormwood, the curtain was lowered, and the lights were extinguished in the seventh sister's room.

After a nap at noon, Yingning was not sleepy at all at this time, and she had no match with Zitang to chat, but the two of them never mentioned the matter of the silk handkerchief.

"Seventh sister, go to bed early, I have to go to my grandfather's house tomorrow to say goodbye." Zitang was busy for most of the day, and at this time he couldn't hold it anymore and closed his eyes.

Ying Ning thought that she could go out for a walk tomorrow, and she became more and more energetic. Thinking of the hares I met in the mountains last year, and the wild fruits that were red and green, the old women in the fields talked and laughed with pickaxes...... So I went into a reverie all night.

When she got up in the morning of the second day, Yingning naturally left a green shadow under her eyes. Fortunately, the color is not dark, and Zitang pounced on the seventh sister with a layer of powder to cover it.

Mrs. Ji has already prepared a gift, and she has not returned to Ning since her father's birthday last year.

"Old lady, our aunt and grandmother have come to greet our sisters and children, and the carriage has already passed the alley and is coming to the house." An Zhu picked up the front doorman and trotted all the way into Mrs. Yang's Zhizhai Garden.

"Oh, help me to the door to greet me." Mrs. Yang was still teasing her big fat grandson, and she was busy putting down the rattle": Take care of Brother Bao. Lady, did you know that?"

"Mrs. and Aunt Qiu have gone to the front early, and the refreshments and fruits are ready." An Zhu replied.

An Zhu stepped forward to take Mrs. Ji's hand and helped him out of the carriage, and Mrs. Yang Yu stood at the door with a smile on her face.

Mrs. Ji wore a black gold Yunsu embroidered dress today, a hairpin inlaid with jade cloud and phoenix patterns, a jade jade bracelet in one hand, and a coral bracelet in the other. The girls at the back came out, all of them delicate and delicate, and unusual women. Seeing that her sister-in-law was so rich, Yu smiled more and more attentively.

As soon as the seventh sister got out of the carriage, she called "grandmother"

"Good sister, come to grandmother, I haven't seen you for a year, and you're so good." Mrs. Yang grabbed Yingning's hand and was reluctant to let go. Touch the little face, and look at the body again. When Yingning was still in infancy, Mrs. Yang hugged her, and then came to Qingzhou every year, so her feelings were deeper.

"Mother, no one robbed Sister Ning with you, you can take a good look today. On this hot day, Mrs. Ji and her sisters came into the house and sat down. ”

"Yes, yes, I'm confused, let's get inside, let's see the girls are hot."

After entering the hall and sitting down, Mrs. Ji and Mrs. Yang sat next to each other. The sisters of the Yang family also came out one by one to ask for peace.

Mrs. Ji has a brother-in-law above and a younger brother below. All those who came out of the house have been separated from the house. The three sisters of Anli are all the daughters of the eldest brother.

"The eldest brother went to Ancheng to take up a post, and he only saw him once in half a year, but it was ......hard work," Mrs. Yang sighed. When Mrs. Ji heard her sister-in-law say this, she also understood the meaning a little, so she said: "I will talk to Yihuai, and it is not allowed to succeed, after all, I am a woman in the house, and my lord has an idea." ”

"When you are an official, you also have to look at the luck, if you have it, mention it, if you don't, we can't force it." Mrs. Yang said.

Mrs. Yang asked someone to bring Brother Bao, Brother Bao was born by Mrs. Yang, Mrs. Yang gave birth to three brothers and one sister, and the other two sisters were born by Aunt Qiu. Brother Bao is only five months old, and at this time he can already look for the sound of waves and drums, look straight at them with big eyes, and laugh and make trouble.

After teasing like this for a long time, the maid outside came to report that the second son came from the school. Several girls from the Ji family looked at each other, a little narrow.

"They are all brothers and sisters, and they all know each other. So as not to go out and the family does not recognize the family. Mrs. Yang smiled.

I saw a handsome man in Tsing Yi enter the house, and waved at the upper seat, "Please grandmother, please aunt." ”

"I haven't seen you for a long time, and Brother Yan is also a talent." Mrs. Ji said with a smile.

"My aunt made fun of me, what a man looks like, Xi Wen is a big deal."

"It's so reasonable, I'm relieved that our family Yinghong has half of you." Mrs. Ji looked at the nephew and nodded with satisfaction.

Yang Shenyan saluted a few girls again, and he didn't look at it much, but after a chance glance, he saw Sister Ning'er's small figure hiding behind, her head slightly lowered, but her eyes were rolling darkly. accidentally met her eyes, Ying Ning hurriedly gathered her eyelids and lowered her head. At that time, I was still young, and I always said that my brother and my brother screamed, and at this time she was already a big girl, so there must be a difference between men and women.

Mrs. Ji's Yang family married from her mother's family and went to the imperial capital, and her mother's family sent Jifu gifts every year. The Yu family will be Zhang Luo and be a delicate person, and Lord Yang will also listen to her for seven or eight points, and he will be even more interested in this sister-in-law in the imperial capital Ji Mansion, so as not to lose the affection between relatives.

The Yang family asked people to prepare a banquet early, all of which were eaten in Qingzhou, Mrs. Ji's thoughts. The banquet was divided into two tables, separated by a running water screen in the middle, in which the women sat and the men outside. Outside the screen, the elder brother came to toast, and several girls also respectfully returned the wine. Qingzhou's unique peach blossom brew is sweet to drink, and the wine is not very good, which is most suitable for the girl's family to drink. At the banquet at the table, Mrs. Yang just greeted Mrs. Ji's body, the scientific research of the Ji family, and the food in Kyoto; The girls talked about embroidery, clothes, jewelry......

After the banquet, Mrs. Ji and the girl of the Ji family said goodbye to Mrs. Yang and returned to the villa.

After resting in the villa for two days, the fatigue of the cars and horses on the road has long since disappeared.

"Sister Zitang, how about Miss wearing this white skirt?" Cyanqing asked.

"The stone steps in the mountains are difficult to walk, so be careful of getting dirty. Take the smoky crepe dress. ”

The girls said yesterday that they would go for a walk in the backyard and mountains today, and they would be bored in the house every day, and they would always have to breathe.

Ying Ning changed her clothes, combed her hair in a bun, and took Zitang Cyanqing to the second sister's Bangfeng Pavilion. The second girl is picking up jewelry, and this time her head is also refreshing, only a golden hairpin is inserted, and a row of jade beads is deducted.

"Seventh sister sit down first, and wait for me to change my clothes." The second girl pursed her lips with the red paper, cut her hair in front of the bronze mirror, and felt okay before getting up and entering the inner room.

"We're early." The fifth sister took the hand of the sixth sister and also came to Bangfeng Pavilion. The two sisters are fine, they live in the same room, and they come together after freshening up in the morning.

"It's just right, the second sister will come out after changing her clothes, let's have a cup of tea." Ying Ning found a place by the window and sat down, taking a sip of tea.

When the two girls came out, a few people took six maids to follow the backyard path to prepare to go up the mountain, and the pastries and tea were also ready. Mrs. Ji knew that she was not at ease, so she called two mothers-in-law to follow behind. Insects and birds chirped all the way, and occasionally squirrels jumped out, which frightened the six girls and made everyone laugh. Where have the sisters seen these things in the mountains in the house, and when they see something new, they have to stop and look at it for a while.

Zitang pointed to a bamboo forest and said, "Girls, look at it, there is a piece of spring bamboo shoots that have just grown, you must have never seen it." "The bamboo shoots of the Ji family are rarely dug up, and they have grown up in the summer. If the bamboo shoots were put outside on weekdays, they would have been dug up a long time ago, and the people under the mountain did not dare to come up, and occasionally the people who saw the mountain villa dug up the stew to eat, or dried it and sold it, and they couldn't dig so much. Zitang thought of the famine that year, everything that could be eaten and couldn't be eaten on the mountain was emptied, and if he could dig up a bamboo shoot, it would be a delicacy in the sky.

"The bamboo shoots in the spring are fried with bacon, but they are delicious." The sixth sister couldn't help but swallow her saliva when she thought of this.

"The sixth sister of bracken has never eaten it. When the slave and maid were young, they couldn't eat food at home, so they dug up some bracken and cooked it, and also fed a group of people. In the year, I fried a piece of bracken and sake lees bacon, and it also became a big dish. Zitang casually picked the tender bracken on the side and showed it to the girl.

"It turns out that these foods have grown like this, and there are many dishes that have never been seen or eaten. Tell me what other wild vegetables there are. The seventh sister took the bracken and looked left and right, and her fluffy appearance was cute for a while.

"Slaves and maids are coarse people, and they are used to eating coarse food, which are good in the eyes of slaves and maids, but girls are useless when they learn."

"You might as well tell me, if you hadn't said it, I didn't know that this strange thing could still be in the dish." Ying Ning didn't know that one day, these things really helped a lot, and she relied on these for food in those days, but at that time, there was no more Zitang cyanosis around her, and she was left alone.

"That section looks like a dragon's whisker, so it is called a dragon's beard. There is also this small grass that can be seen everywhere on the ground, it looks like a horsetooth, it is called purslane, also called longevity grass, it can be used as a vegetable and can be used as medicine, when someone in the family has typhoid fever, the mother will boil a pot. And the cart of weeds, and the spiny cabbage......"

"It's a funny name." The fifth sister laughed when she heard this.

"No, it's all the food of the poor in the countryside, and they haven't read books, so where there is any culture, they will naturally look like whatever they are." Yingxiu said.

"What the second girl said is that the common name is good to remember, and you can't forget it once you see it." Zitang nodded.

After saying that they looked all the way, when everyone turned around, the villa was far away, and the girls were sweating lightly.

"No, I can't climb anymore." The second sister stroked her chest, a little out of breath. The fifth sister and the sixth sister also held their waists and gasped.

"Second sister, it's almost to the top, look at the gazebo above, let's go up to drink tea and blow the wind later, and see if it's comfortable to see the farm fields below?" When the second sister heard the seventh sister say this, she could only wipe her sweat, gritted her teeth and continued to climb. Ying Ning was in good spirits, crawling in front of a few people, although her legs and feet were sore, her footsteps did not stop.

Yingxiu followed Yingxue and Yingyao to the top, and saw that the seventh girl was already sitting in the pavilion, looking at the Grange in the distance and was stunned.

Ying Ning looked at the vast farmland and the world, and the crops below walked like ants, feeling how small and powerless she was. In addition to his parents, there are kings above, and in addition to kings, there are boundless heaven and earth, none of which he can control. She can't control her grandmother's well-being, her second sister's marriage, her mother's joys and sorrows, and even her own fate. What Ying Ning didn't expect was that she couldn't control the rise and fall of the family......