Chapter Forty-Eight: The Spring Feast
Mu Baowen led Rong Zheng into the flower hall, but Rong Zheng saw that there were already a lot of ladies and ladies in the flower hall.
"Meet my concubine and my mother."
Rong Zheng saw Concubine Yan for the first time, but he saw that she was wearing a blue brocade cloud satin jacket, gray hair, beaded buns, and radiant hair, looking only in her fifties, but she was very thin. The corners of his eyes are slightly pulled down, and his lips are pursed into a slit, giving people the feeling that they are not very easy to get along with.
She stepped forward and kowtowed to the concubine.
The concubine smiled and invited Rong Zheng to get up, and praised: "What a neat little girl, I don't know which lady it is?" ”
Mu Baowen smiled: "It's the young lady of the Rong family, and she is the same as me." ”
The concubine asked a mother next to her to hand over a brocade box, and she smiled: "When we meet for the first time, you are a junior, so don't be polite." ”
Rong Zheng hurriedly saluted and thanked him.
Immediately afterwards, she saluted the princess again. The smile on the princess's face did not reach the bottom of her eyes, and quickly disappeared. She was also a little angry with the Rong family because of Rong Yun's incident at the beginning, and she didn't have a good face for Rong Zheng.
Mu Baowen and Rong Zheng smiled and said a few words, and then went to greet the other grandmothers and young ladies.
Rong Zheng had already seen the Gu family Qingyue and Mingyue sisters. She stepped forward to greet her.
Qingyue pointed to Rong Zheng's skirt and smiled: "Your skirt is so beautiful, more elegant than ordinary embroidery or brocade." Then he looked at the red coral rose on Rong Zheng's head, and opened his mouth in surprise and said, "It's so beautiful." ”
Immediately, grandmothers and young ladies from other families also noticed Rong Zheng's clothes and clothes, and praised them one after another. For a while, she became the central figure in this flower hall, but it made her a little uncomfortable. Is this what my grandmother intended, to make her beautiful in front of these noble ladies and ladies, but her original intention was not to be so high-profile, just stay in the corner and be quiet.
She felt that something had been staring at her, and she turned back instantly, but it collided with the princess's gaze. The princess was too busy, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, and she looked a little unhappy.
Everyone gathered in the flower hall for a while, and when the people were almost there, the stage on the side of the late spring stage was also set up. The princess and princess invited everyone to come over to watch the play.
The princess took the play book to the princess, the princess looked back with the lenses, pointed to a play "Worship the Moon", and the princess sent the play book to the hands of Mrs. Li, a cabinet scholar, Mrs. Li is just a second-class lady, how dare she trespass in front of the princess, and pushed: "Guests are as they please, or ask the mother to help us order a good look." ”
The princess was not polite, and reached out to pick up the pen to circle a play "Piano Pick", and then several noblewomen ordered the play. After passing the play list, it was time to sound the gong and start the play.
After a while, the princess and Mu Baojuan came over.
The concubine was very happy to see the princess, and beckoned to her, "Come and sit beside me." ”
The princess smiled: "In the end, the ancestor loves me." ”
Mu Baojuan naturally sat next to the princess.
The princess glanced at her daughter, then at the ladies who were sitting again, and whispered to Baojuan: "You don't have to accompany me, why don't you go to the garden with the ladies to enjoy the flowers, don't you also have a boat?" ”
Mu Baojuan is not much different from Baowen, she doesn't like to move around, but likes to be quiet, and she is afraid of trouble, so she said to the princess: "Mother, let me accompany you to watch the play." Isn't there a third sister in the garden rowing? She can't sit still, and she likes to be lively. ”
The princess felt that this daughter was too silent, not as lively as Baowen, and would come to trouble. Although everyone has a different personality, they are too silent, and they are afraid that they will be wronged when they go to their in-laws' house in the future.
"You, let me tell you what's good." The princess poked the forehead of the treasure silk a little helplessly.
As soon as the princess sat down in front of the concubine, and before she could say a few words, she came to the princess again and whispered, "Mother, the one in the temple is back." ”
The princess was shocked and hurriedly asked, "What is he doing when he comes back at this time?" ”
"I don't know, I heard that I went to the prince's side. Maybe I'll come to say hello to the concubine and my mother in a while. ”
The princess sneered: "I don't need him to be so filial, here are all female dependents, what is he breaking into a foreign man." If you come to say goodbye, you will have someone stop me. ”
"It's not good." The princess was a little embarrassed.
The princess said, "I don't want to see him!" ”
The princess did not dare to speak again.
The play ordered by the concubine has already started, and Bao Juan doesn't pay attention to these disputes at home, and puts all her heart on the stage. The princess sat down beside the concubine.
The concubine looked at the unhappiness on the princess's face, and asked the princess what was going on. The princess was clear, and the concubine was silent for a long time before she said: "Family and everything is prosperous." ”
Not long after, Mu Baowen really came up and said to the princess: "Mother, can I go to the garden with my sisters and sisters?" ”
The princess smiled and nodded: "Go, I'm afraid I'll detain you." I know you've got boats, but be careful not to fall overboard. ”
Mu Baowen smiled: "I know, don't worry, concubine." ”
The sisters of the Gu family, a pair of daughters of Mrs. Li's family, and the three girls of Baowen's mother's family are all willing to follow Baowen to the garden. Baowen walked to Rong Zheng's side, secretly pulled down Rong Zheng's clothes, Rong Zheng understood, smiled and went with Baowen.
There are several peonies planted in this area of Late Spring, but unfortunately the weather is a little cold this year, and even the buds have not yet been beaten, so naturally there are no flowers to enjoy.
"If you want to say that the peony is still the peony in Luoyang, although we also plant it in Bianliang, we always feel that it is a little worse than Luoyang." The twelve mothers of the Li family muttered.
Gu Qingyue heard that she was busy answering the conversation, and asked with a smile: "This sister has been to Luoyang?" ”
Li Twelve Niang smiled: "My grandfather's family is from Luoyang. I went back to Luoyang with my mother last year, and the peonies in my grandfather's garden are called beautiful, what is Yao Huang Wei Zi, I have really seen it. ”
Li Shiniang is good at embroidery, and when she heard her sister say this, she was also busy echoing: "The peony patterns in Luoyang are also better than those in other places, and I also asked the twelfth sister to help me bring a few pictures back." ”
Mu Baowen nodded and said: "Luoyang's peony is famous all over the world, and these flower roots in our home are also transplanted from Luoyang." ”
In addition to retaining the memories of the previous life in Nanyang, Rong Zheng has never been to other places, and she seems to be a little unable to interject in the conversation of these people.
The sisters of Baowen's mother family only stared at the coral flowers on Rong Zheng's head, and secretly said that Rong Zheng's skirt was beautiful, and they discussed making one.
"What kind of material is Sister Rong's skirt?"
Rong Zheng asked, looked back, but it was her little cousin of the Baowen family, combing her hair, wearing beaded flowers, and her big black eyes were very smart, and she was a little playful.
When Rong Zheng saw her, he couldn't help but think of her sister Qi, who also had such big black eyes and bright water. Her heart softened, nodded and replied with a smile: "It's Hang Juan." ”
"No wonder, it turned out to be Hang Juan." Another little girl next to her, who was only about ten years old, clapped her hands and laughed.