Chapter 8 Swimming in the Lake
Cui Wei Hongying took Shao Ying to live in Qixia Courtyard, and Zhengqiu Hall was originally peaceful. It's just that after a long time, Shao Ying has gradually become sensible, and he always wants to see his mother, like his father, he secretly brought his most beloved things to Yan Furong to avoid people's eyes, almost humbly trying to please Yan Furong, but it always backfired.
After Songyan finished handling the chores, the servant woman in charge quietly retreated, and after a while her side was empty. Up and down in Zhengqiu Hall, from Yan Furong to the fan maid to the white-haired Chow Chow raised by Yan Furong were asleep, Songyan walked to the pantry a little tired, wanting to find some refreshments to pad her stomach, her identity was embarrassing, and some things had to be talked to those servants, and everything had to be explained clearly before it could be implemented. What's more, today's Zhengqiu Hall is no longer the Zhengqiu Hall that everyone in the Hou Mansion avoided at the beginning, she took a lot of time today, and even the meal was wrong.
She was just about to enter the ear room when out of the corner of her eye suddenly saw something behind the big water tank in the courtyard.
Songyan poured back and looked at it again. There are a few white-petaled goose yellow water lilies in the big water tank, and the wind in the yard sways as soon as it passes. It may be that when he heard that the pine smoke was silent, a small hand barely stretched out from the edge of the jar, wanting to pick the lotus. Songyan laughed for a while, tiptoed over with her skirt, and patted her little hand gently, "Who is this?" β
The owner of the little hands stood on a wooden horse, holding the water tank, and was not at all alarmed when he was clapped his hands, but showed a kind of hardness of forced clothing. He jumped off the pony, looked up and saw that it was Songyan, a smile appeared on his face, and he jumped over and hugged Songyan's calf.
"Aunt Songyan." Shao Ying whispered.
Songyan saw that he was a little one, just reached the height of his skirt, so he leaned down and picked him up and walked towards the pantry, "Why don't you take a nap?" β
Shao Ying twisted and said, "And my pony." β
Songyan hugged him with one hand, picked up the vivid little wooden horse with the other, walked into the pantry, the little maid guarding the tea stove also fell asleep, Songyan didn't wake her up, she put Shao Ying on the circle chair herself, the pony next to him, and went to find a fruit box, a plate of jade bean cake to eat. Shao Ying also wanted to eat, and Songyan ate two from a distance from him, so he put these up again, "...... I can't eat it, I have to take a nap for a while, and the child eats it to accumulate food. β
Shao Ying didn't ask for it again, because he knew that Songyan was not a green wisp of red tassels, everything went according to his wishes, and he wouldn't give Songyan if he asked for it, but in the end he was a little unhappy, shrunk on the chair, and kicked the pony that was still inseparable just now. After finishing the songyan, she sat down beside him and fanned him, Shao Ying nested in her arms and laughed again, in the end, it was a child, just showed a smile, followed by a yawn, and fell asleep. Songyan hugged him and quietly fanned him, and the little maid guarding the tea stove finally woke up and was startled when she saw Songyan there. Songyan asked her to send a letter to Qixia Courtyard, saying that the prince had come to see Mrs. again, so there was no need to panic, and when the sun was no longer poisonous, she would send the prince back.
When the little maid heard that she was going to Qixia Courtyard to see the two aunts of Cui Wei Hongying, she couldn't help but shrink back, "Sister Songyan, the two aunts have been too bad lately, and they don't smile at the people in our Zhengqiu Hall." β
Songyan sighed and instructed her, "How can you pick up the errand?" Just go! The little maid did as she was told, and all she heard in the yard was the squeaking of cicadas. I don't know how long it took, Shao Ying suddenly kicked his feet and woke up uncomfortably, Songyan was kicked on the waist several times by him, but he didn't dare to let go, for fear of dropping him to the ground. Shao Ying opened her eyes in a daze, and said with a crying voice, "Aunt Songyan, why doesn't my mother allow me to see her?" Does she not like me? β
Song Yan hugged him, "Nonsense, Madame is afraid of illness because she is weak, and she wants our son to be healthy." β
Shao Ying glanced at her, hugged Songyan's waist, and buried his head in her arms, and after a while, Songyan could feel his clothes soaked with his tears.
In the afternoon, Shao Ying was sent back to Qixia Courtyard, and when Songyan returned to Zhengqiu Hall, he hesitated and entered the main room to see Yan Furong.
The first beauty in the capital back then, now she is as thin as a handful of bones, and when she saw Songyan coming in, she said, "I regret it so much, Songyan, I shouldn't have promised Shao Ding to give birth to this child, every time I see him, I will think of that night." β
Shao Ding has gradually adapted to today's life, Shao Ying was raised in Qixia Courtyard by Cui Hongying, and the affairs in the inner courtyard of the Hou Mansion were in the hands of Songyan under Shao Ding's ignorance, with the acquiescence of Cui Hongying, and Yan Furong's Zhengqiu Hall was like a pool of stagnant water, except for Shao Ying, who occasionally broke in, could be taken by Yan Furong to talk about it, almost nothing would happen.
Song Yan didn't answer, but said, "Madam, the weather is so good today, why don't you drag out the painting boat in the house and put it in the back lake to relax." β
Yan Furong said in a trance, "Has the lotus bloomed?" β
Songyan hurriedly said, "It's open, it's all over the lake." β
Yan Furong agreed.
In the Zhengqiu Hall, it was like a lake that was thrown into the stones, and the maids were so excited that they couldn't help themselves, put on the most decent clothes, and hugged the Yan Hibiscus on the boat with flowers. The laughter seemed to be able to reach the outside of the Hou Mansion from the surface of the lake. Yan Furong loses the most, but she laughs the most, and Songyan rarely sees her so happy, so she doesn't stop her interest, and she drinks with a penalty.
After a while, Yan Furong was drunk and hazy leaning on the chaise longue, and the maids were all around her, and she was clearly heard saying, "Cousin, have you come to see me?" β
Xueya Yunmist, who was closest to her, suddenly turned pale like a dead man, and the other maids were also suddenly silenced, not daring to get on the boat, and Mother Cao and Mother Jin, who were sitting far away on the shore eating tea, heard that the boat suddenly quieted down, and they also felt that something was wrong, so that people shouted, "What's wrong?" You okay? Songyan's face remained unchanged, and let Yuhua reply. Yuhua stood up neatly, and didn't let the little maid shout, and replied by herself, "It's okayββ, Madame is drunkββ, a little uncomfortableββ"
Yan Furong heard her shout, and suddenly stood up, and the other maids took a step back at this time, only Songyan stepped forward and grabbed Yan Furong's arm tightly, Yan Furong said, "I'm not drunk!" β
She looked at Songyan who was pulling her, and said with a smile, "Songyan, you're here too, let's go with my cousin." β
She was thin to a handful of bones, she was drunk at this time, and for some reason she had great strength, and she was sitting by the open window of the painting boat, but before the maids could react, Yan Furong grabbed the pine smoke and planted it from the painting boat. There was a thud on the surface of the lake, and the screams of the maids and maids rang out.