Chapter XVII

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the weather was a little gloomy, and a cold wind blew in the morning. It seems that Mu Baowen did not encounter good weather.

Before leaving, Rong Di looked at Rong Yun blankly and said, "Sister, I also want to play with you." ”

Rong Yun poked her sister's forehead with a smile and said, "I just want to play, stay at home honestly, serve my mother well, I will mention you more in front of the third lady, and let her invite you next time, okay?" ”

Rong Di pursed his lips and said, "We will return to Beijing in a few days, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to return to Bianliang to live in the future." Forget it, it's good that my sister has this heart. ”

Rong Di saw that Rong Zheng came over with the accompanying maid and wife, pouted, and thought to himself, why should Rong Zheng go. Rong Zheng doesn't know how to do poetry.

Rong Zheng and Rong Di have not reconciled, and when Rong Zheng came up, he smiled and called "second sister". Rong Di raised his face and went.

Rong Yun helped Rong Zheng and let her get into the car first, and then stepped on the stool himself. The two sat together and drove a plain-covered green silk flathead car to the palace.

Rong Zheng looked carefully, today Rong Yun combed a bun with the clouds and wore a short gold hairpin. The fat powder is thinly applied, the eyebrows are like distant mountains, and the eyes contain autumn water. Around his neck is a red gold and eight treasures ring. The silk jacket with silver thread pinched by Xue Qing, and the pink and green skirt embroidered with Fangsheng patterns made her pink and glamorous, and her skin was like condensation.

Rong Zheng pursed his lips and smiled: "The eldest sister is so good-looking today." ”

Rong Yun blushed slightly and said: "Go to other people's houses as guests, and it is the palace, where do you dare to slack off." She pointed to the forbidden step of a jade plaque on Rong Zheng's skirt and smiled: "Your jade plaque is beautiful, emerald and shiny, with good color and good water head." ”

Rong Zheng looked at it and said, "This is something my mother left me." ”

The sisters are quite intimate, talking and laughing all the way.

When they arrived at the palace, the car entered through the west door and stopped in front of the shadow wall. A servant woman came up to them and showed them the way.

Rong Zheng looked up, the majestic palace pavilion, thick and solemn. Covered with green glazed tiles, she can't help but think of the glazed pagoda of Daxiangguo Temple.

They followed the servant woman, entered the moon gate, passed through a hall, walked through the cobblestones, and came to a cross-courtyard. A little maid came out to greet her.

Along the way, Rong Zheng felt that the servants and maids in the palace, and even the small maids were different from other places. There are many people but they are not mixed at all, well-trained and meticulous.

Rong Zheng followed behind Rong Yun, led by the little maid, and entered the courtyard.

It's still a cold winter outside, but when I approach this yard, I feel full of life. There are two plum trees in the yard, planted opposite each other from east to west, and now it is the flowering season, and the branches have long bloomed vermilion flowers.

The servants and maids in the courtyard went in and out, but there was no confusion. Rong Zheng felt that the flower was blooming well, and thought that it looked like he was going to make a plum blossom poem today. It's a pity that she doesn't have many poems in her stomach, otherwise she can inscribe two sentences on her long face.

Rong Yun saw that his eyes were hot, and he quietly said to Rong Zheng: "This third lady is really Yaxing." ”

Rong Zheng pursed his lips and smiled.

Originally, Mu Baowen planned to set up the mat under the plum tree, but the sky was not beautiful, and the wind was blowing, and I don't know if it would rain after a while. Fortunately, she was prepared, and set up the table in the cloister for the time being. On the porch, she had already let people arrange it and spread it with orangutan felt. I opened a flower room and moved dozens of pots of flowers. If it rains, move inside. Her room here is very spacious, and the guests who came here today have a place to sit.

When the Rong sisters came to greet her, Mu Baowen did not forget about them, warmly invited them to sit down, and hurriedly asked the maid to bring tea and fruit over.

Rong Zheng didn't expect that there would be so many flowers in such a season, which shows that the people who care for flowers and plants in the palace are very capable. The plum blossom has passed, the spring orchid, Jianlan, and the narcissus raised in the pot have not yet reached the flowering period, which is the moon season and rose flowers that are also planted by ordinary people, and they are also raised with a lovely spirit. The yellow moon season has a big bowl mouth, and I don't know what kind of breed it is. Ling Rongzheng was surprised, and wondered if she was going to ask Mu Baowen what method she used to raise flowers so well, and she would go back to tell the gardener at home.

Mu Baowen has a treat today, and the people invited are just some grandmothers and ladies who are close to each other. Approximately the same age. The three cousins of the mother's family, a grandmother and two young ladies of the cabinet scholar's family, and the two maiden sisters of the princess's sister-in-law, plus a pair of sisters from the Rong family, just made up ten people.

She probably didn't know any of these people, and she didn't have much to do with them, but she had seen two of the younger sisters of the princess's mother's family. One is named Gu Mingyue and the other is named Gu Qingyue. Mingyue's body is a little plump, and she speaks softly and softly. Qingyue was born petite, but a red mole the size of a grain of rice was born on the tip of her eyebrows, which was unforgettable. The two always go in and out together, so Rong Zheng remembers them.

Now that we have met, we have to say hello.

"Do you remember me, sisters of the Gu family?"

Mingyue is very inward-looking, born a little shy, but has a very good memory, and when she saw Rong Zheng, she smiled and nodded: "Remember, remember, you are the daughter of the fourth grandmother's mother's family." The nickname is Sister Zheng, isn't it? It's just that this one is not very impressed. As he spoke, he glanced at Rong Yun.

Rong Zheng hurriedly introduced: "She is the daughter of my uncle's family and my lobby sister." I used to live in Kyori, and I didn't come back much. ”

Gu Mingyue smiled: "It's strange, I mean I don't have an impression." ”

Rong Yun came up and greeted Sister Gu Mingyue.

Immediately after that, other girls came up, and everyone introduced each other, said hello to each other, and ordered teeth. Counting it, Gu Qingyue and Rong Zheng were born in the same year and month, but Qingyue was only five days younger than Rong Zheng.

For a while, the warbler and the swallow were not lively.

Not long after, the princess helped the princess over. Also with him were the county lord Duanhui, who didn't show his face in front of people, and Mu Baojuan.

This is the first time Rong Zheng has seen Mu Baojuan, who is tall and describes him as seven or eight points like a princess. Wearing a peach-colored makeup jacket and a Zhaojun set. and the princess on the left and right hugged the princess, and the lord of Duanhui fell behind them, and he still looked a little unsociable.

Rong Zheng followed everyone to salute the princess, the princess, and the county lord.

Mu Baowen invited the princess to sit in the hall, and personally held the tea, the princess took it, and the princess took it. I saw a room of girls, fat and thin, and the clothes and temples were so lively.

"It's still the third girl who has Yaxing, I heard that you want to compose a poem, I'll take a look. How's it going? ”

Mu Baowen blushed and said: "Let the concubine see the joke, the talent has not been here for a long time, and she has not yet started composing poems." ”

The princess smiled and said, "I'm here, you all restrain yourself." I saw that the plum blossom was blooming well. I just took the reward bottle. I want you to send two flowers to the concubine. ”

When Mu Baowen heard this, she ordered the little girl to take scissors to cut the flowers. She went to the branch herself, and the flowers were dense, and cut two branches, one for the concubine to hold and the other to the princess's house.

Everyone is having fun in front of them.

The lord of Duanhui County took a closer look at today's visitors. Rong Zheng noticed that when the county lord was looking at her, he smiled generously at the county lord. The county lord was slightly stunned, nodded slightly, and went to look at the three sisters of Baowen's mother's family.

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