The splendid carriage and the boxes of gold and silver treasures were no different from the walking bank, shouting from top to bottom, "Come and grab me, come and rob me." Therefore, as soon as she walked twenty or thirty miles out of the city, Xia Xue'er divided the twenty escorts into two groups, leaving five people, and the rest of the escort boxes went south before.

Compared with horseback riding, the carriage is really much slower, the group traveled day and night, changed horses three times at the post station, and finally stepped on the tail of August 14 to the city of Suzhou, and Cousin Wan also received her flying pigeon message, and waited outside the city gate early.

Dongmei was suffocated along the way, and now she is going to enter the city, she is very excited, she opened the curtains of the car from a distance, looked out of the small window, and sighed from time to time in her mouth, she really fell in love with this land of fish and rice! Xia Xue'er played with a Yingluo in her hand, and only listened to her quietly, occasionally interjecting a sentence or two. She had seen the appearance of Suzhou City, but not at this time.

"Miss, is the Zhao family's carriage parked in front of you?"

Hearing Dongmei's words, Xia Xue'er also leaned her head to the window of the car, and it happened that there was also a person coming down from the carriage, a violet gold silk brocade scattered flower drag skirt, and a brocade with a white fur collar cloak on the outside, isn't the person with such a sign her Wanqing cousin? Xia Xue'er showed a little smile on her face, urging the master who was driving the car to speed up a little, and when she got closer, she was unhurriedly helped out of the carriage by the maid.

Zhao Wanqing stood on the side of the carriage and stared at her, smiling with a smile, and before Xia Xue'er could speak, she said with a smile: "The grandmother from afar said that this seems to be my sister's carriage, it seems that it is really right!" ”

Xia Xue'er smiled slightly, glanced sideways behind her, and saw that she was alone with two grandmothers, and there was no one else. Zhao Wanqing also saw her gaze, seemed to realize something, and hurriedly explained: "It's that I'm in a hurry, so I want to come to the city gate to greet you." Earlier, my father went to the south of the city to apply medicine, and my mother also went to help, and it will take more than an hour to come back! Don't be careful. ”

Hearing this, Xia Xue'er withdrew her gaze, she wasn't thinking about this. So he looked at Zhao Wanqing with a smile and said: "What did Cousin Wan say, as a junior, I should go to see my uncle and aunt, how can I work for them to come here to pick me up!" Besides, it is a good deed to give medicine, so should I be allowed to delay it? ”

"That's what I'm thinking about!"

Zhao Wanqing knows her temperament, she has great love in her heart, and she also understands the truth, so she doesn't care about these small problems, but she also knows that if Xia Xue'er really has something on her mind, it will not be light.

didn't think about anything else, only took my sister's hand, and said with some distress: "I haven't seen you for a long time, you have lost a lot of weight!" ”

The last time she parted, she said that she had opened her heart knot, but she knew that her sister also had a heart knot, even much heavier than hers. At this meeting, her eyes were clear, and her whole body exuded a breath of hope, obviously untying the knot in her heart, but this figure was much slimmer than when she parted last time.

"Maybe it's because of the bumps on the road and the fact that I couldn't sleep well."

Xia Xue'er stretched out her hand and touched her cheek, she had indeed lost a lot of weight, her fingers could feel the edges and corners of the bones, and she couldn't help but sigh secretly. I had a knot in my heart before, and I haven't been able to sleep well, although I have been serving delicious food and drink all day, but my body is not fat but thin, but after this matter is over, I may be able to get better.

Mama stepped forward and said something in Zhao Wanqing's ear, Zhao Wanqing nodded slightly, then looked at Xia Xue'er again and said, "Okay, we should go back too." My grandfather was wondering when his granddaughter would come to his side, and he was probably in a hurry! ”

Xia Xue'er only nodded and smiled, and let the other party pull her into her carriage, Meilan Zhuju and the four of them followed Xianglan to serve, and the other three returned to the carriage of the Marquis of Anguo's mansion and followed the carriage of the Zhao family into the city.

The carriage went all the way, and the sound of selling on the street came through the car body, as if singing a little song, Xia Xue'er listened with some interest, although she couldn't quite understand it!

The voice gradually weakened, and after another quarter or two of an hour or two, the carriage came to a stop. Mama opened the curtain of the car, carefully picked up the two young ladies out, and after Xia Xue'er completely stood still, the carriage of the Marquis of Anguo followed, and the three girls came out of it, and they were shocked after just one look.

The Zhao family deserves to be a rich country!

This house is located on the bank of the crystal clear river, and there are no other houses around, which can be said to be the dominant party in this Suzhou city. The stone bridge connects to the opposite bank, and there are often boats rowing under the bridge, all of which are richly decorated, showing that they are the boats of prominent families. The house is a typical Suzhou garden, the door is neither inlaid with a copper nail to show the identity of the door, nor is there a stone lion sitting to demonstrate the solemnity, the gold plaque of the high gate does not see a little shadow, even so, in the momentum is not inferior to the northern official residence! The white walls paved with cyan tiles stretch out from the not-so-magnificent main entrance to both sides, but there is no end in sight.

Just by looking at the appearance of this house, you can know the wealth of the owner of this house, and it covers such a wide area, I am afraid that few people in the world can do it!

Xia Xue'er followed Zhao Wanqing into the main gate, and as soon as she entered the door, she was greeted by a lake as big as three or four green lotus ponds, pavilions and pavilions, scattered everywhere, and she was at peace with her encounter. There is a stone corridor that leads to it without knowing where it leads, and there is a small house with eight treasures at about every ten steps, which is also made of stone, and is dragged by a carved stone pillar with a large bowl mouth, which is the light box of the street lamp.

Now the sky has darkened, there is a maid is lighting a lamp, the copper candlestick with a long handle, one maid holds the copper handle in both hands, the other puts the lit candle on the candlestick, and then the maid with the handle carefully sends it into the light box. With such a difficult action, the two little maids do it extremely smoothly and naturally, and it is obviously practice makes perfect.

Zhao Wanqing did not take her over the promenade, but walked in the opposite direction, with the lake on one side and the land on the other. Just walked a few steps, I saw two small sedan chairs waiting there, the little guy who carried the sedan chair saw the two of them, saluted respectfully, and Xia Xueer followed Zhao Wanqing's example and got on the sedan chair. After walking for nearly three quarters of an hour, the sedan chair fell, and the two of them came to a place where the avenue was much narrower than before, and a grandmother was waiting with a lantern. After walking for a long time on the tree-shaded path, Xia Xueer raised her head to see that there was a fan-shaped plaque on the door, and the word was clumsy.

ps. The first more ~ hand pain ~ but good hi skin! Tickets come ~ (to be continued.) )