Chapter Ninety-Three: Going to the Feast

The stage sang "Kite Mistake" in Yiyang dialect, and Zhan Shujuan, who played Kunjiao, was the famous Cheng Ziying. The singing voice is very tactful and beautiful, and the eye waves flow between a smile and a smile, which is really a bit of a woman's charm.

Li Shiniang whispered to Rong Zheng earnestly: "This is not a score, why is my sister extremely ugly and rude, and my sister has to be both talented and beautiful." It's all a family, and it's too unseemly. Children and parents do not make sense at all. ”

Rong Zheng pursed his lips and smiled: "You have a bit of a point. But it's fun, so why do you want to be serious? ”

Mu Baowen heard the words of Fifteen Niang and turned her head and said to them: "So these things in the drama are unbelievable, why are there so many coincidences, how can they be happily reunited." ”

The three of them muttered for a while, and their minds were not on the drama. Later, Mu Baowen said to them, "You come with me." ”

Li Shiniang turned around and said to the twelve niang next to her: "Twelfth sister, I'll go to the third lady to sit down." If my mother asks me later, you can speak for me. ”

Li Twelve Niang nodded and said, "Don't make trouble for the third lady." ”

Li Shiniang pursed her lips and smiled: "I'm not a child anymore." ”

Rong Zheng didn't plan to say hello to Ma's, so he went with Mu Baowen hand in hand with Li Shiniang.

The three women walked out of the Sanhua Building, followed by the maid and the woman, and a dozen or so people surrounded them and went to Mu Baowen's room.

Mu Baowen's residence is not far from the Scattered Flower Building, on a small corner of Qichun Garden.

Rong Zheng looked up and saw a plaque hanging outside the courtyard gate, with two seal characters of "Banana Pavilion" written on it.

When I went to the courtyard, I saw that there were only five or six rooms. There are two bright and one dark above, plus a small step back. The doors and windows are all painted in vermilion. There are several clumps of plantain planted at the bottom of the steps. Unfortunately, only the withered plantain leaves remained. Rong Zheng understood why it was called this name.

Mu Baowen invited them to sit in the house, and ordered the maid to serve good tea.

"This is a new tea from Cochin, how do you taste it?"

Li Shiniang tasted it first, and it was very different from the usual taste, and after a long time of aftertaste, she said: "It's not as good as what we usually drink, it's just a little novel." ”

Rong Zheng also took a small sip, and then said with a smile: "The foreign tribute is really different. Maybe you get used to it after eating it for a long time. ”

Mu Baowen also said: "Anyway, I'm not used to eating." By the way, I heard that the good things of the fifteenth mother are near. But isn't it? ”

Li Shiniang blushed slightly and lowered her head. sat there shyly and timidly, and said in a slur manner, "Who did the third lady listen to?" ”

Mu Baowen smiled: "Who did I listen to, our concubine made a matchmaker." I don't know. This is a joy to the fifteenth mother. ”

Li Shiniang became more and more embarrassed.

Rong Zheng was just puzzled and hurriedly asked, "What about the fifteenth miss's wedding date?" ”

Mu Baowen smiled: "It turns out that you don't know yet, the matchmaker made by our concubine is the nephew of the chief historian of our house." I have also met Cui Shangzhou a few times, and I am a talent. It's really a pair of golden boys and girls. ”

Li Shiniang blushed and said, "The third lady will make fun of people." ”

Rong Zheng was slightly stunned, Cui Shangzhou? It's him? It turns out that he hasn't married yet? Her mind came to the story of Lutang. glanced at Li Shiniang in front of her again, and said that she was really a pair of golden boys and girls, and she couldn't help laughing when she thought about it.

Li Shiniang stopped doing it at this time, and the two made fun of her. Get up and go out. Mu Baowen hurriedly got up and grabbed her, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay." If you're shy, we won't say it. ”

Li Shiniang sat down at this time.

Mu Baowen asked people to bring her new good things.

Wait for the maid to arrive. She put it on the table and invited Rong Zheng to come and see.

Rong Zheng took a closer look. But when I saw that it was a framed "Autumn Late Post", I was slightly surprised: "I've only heard people mention this before, but I didn't expect to see the real thing." ”

"Not bad, right?"

Rong Zheng nodded.

Li Shiniang is not deeply accomplished in calligraphy, but she also tasted it once.

"This is what my third brother helped me get with a lot of effort. By the way, I forgot that you were from the regular script. I still have "Chunhua Pavilion Post" here, I can borrow a few copies from you, and you can go back and come slowly.

Rong Zheng hurriedly said thank you.

Mu Baowen ordered someone to bring a paper box and loaded a "Lu Girl Post", a "Rong Shi Post", and a "Urgent Post".

Rong Zheng is very grateful.

Mu Baowen said: "It's a pity that I haven't had much work lately, so I'll borrow these from you first." ”

Rong Zheng said: "Chunhua Pavilion Post is very precious. ”

"It's natural, and I haven't got it together yet. I'll ask the third brother to help me find it another day. Then I thought that I might be going to Luoyang soon, and I was afraid that I wouldn't have time to make it up, so I felt a little sad in my heart.

"It's not easy to get this together, and I heard people say that some decades may not be able to make it up."

Mu Baowen smiled.

Li Shiniang is not interested in these Mobao, she prefers flowers and plants, she remembered the pot of Molan placed on the case, and couldn't help but ask Mu Baowen: "Third Miss, I didn't expect that there was still Molan in your house?" ”

Mu Baowen said: "I don't care much about these, they are all cultivated by the Miao lady in the flower house." Do you like to raise flowers? ”

Li Shiniang said: "It's okay, when I was at home, I liked to play with these flowers and plants, and then make a flower dew or something." ”

Mu Baowen thought that she had borrowed these precious scriptures from Rong Zheng, and she couldn't help but express herself to Li Shiniang, so she thought about it and said: "If you like it, why don't I take you to the conservatory to have a look, and if you want it, I will give you a pot." ”

Li Shiniang immediately said: "Then how dare you be? ”

"What is this, you come with me."

Rong Zheng and Li Shiniang followed Mu Baowen to the warm house in the palace, walked on the Jiuqu Bridge on the Liufang River, and passed through the hillside full of roses and moon seasons. Li Shiniang remembered something, smiled and said to Rong Zheng: "I remember, the last time you passed by here, your skirt was pierced by a flower thorn." It's a pity that such a beautiful dress was ruined. ”

Rong Zheng smiled: "If you don't pay attention for a while, it's also negligence." ”

Mu Baowen turned around and said with a smile: "That time you came to our house, but you were out of the limelight, and the two girls from my mother's family stared at the beaded flowers on your head and boasted about your skirt." ”

Talking and laughing all the way. It has come to the conservatory. Miao Niangzi was busy in the greenhouse, and when she saw Mu Baowen and them coming, she hurriedly put down the shovel in her hand and stepped forward with a smile: "The third lady is here!" ”

Mu Baowen nodded and smiled: "You're busy, let's take a look." ”

Miao Niangzi said again: "Then please take care of the young ladies and say anything about help." ”

There is a dragon in the conservatory, warm as spring, no wonder the flowers and plants grow better than outside. Rong Zheng looked closely. Pots of carefully cultivated flowers, some of which have already been bone-flowered. Some of them have already bloomed, while others have just sprouted green leaves, and you can't tell what they are planting.

Li Shiniang's eyes were straight. I just think it's good-looking, look here, look there. Later, he pointed to a pot of camellia and asked, "What kind of camellia is this?" ”

Mu Baowen couldn't answer, so she asked Miao Niangzi.

Miao Niangzi came up and introduced: "This is Yang Fei tea." ”

Because there are no flower bones yet. I can't imagine what kind of flowers will bloom. But the name is nice.

Li Shiniang said: "I heard that camellia grows in the south, and there are few in Bianliang." And it's not easy to survive. ”

Miao Niangzi thought, but met a young lady who knew the goods, and said with a smile: "Yes, we are a little colder here." It's been a little drier again. It's cold here, and it will bloom after a month in this greenhouse. ”

Li Shiniang said: "I heard that the most precious camellia is the 'Eighteen Bachelors', but unfortunately I have only heard of it, but I have not seen it. ”

Miao Niangzi said with a smile: "The eighteenth bachelor also raised it a few years ago. Unfortunately, it was not made in the end. It's too much work to raise this. ”

Li Shiniang agreed.

Mu Baowen saw that Li Shifu Niang liked camellias, and after a little silence, he said to Li Shiniang: "I will give you this pot of Yang Fei tea." ”

Li Shiniang hurriedly said: "It's too precious." Don't dare to take it. He added, "We don't have a warm house at home, and we are frozen when we go back." ”

Mu Baowen asked Miao Niangzi again: "Are there any flowers that don't need to be too warm?" ”

"Yes, there are one kind of narcissus, and there are all kinds of plum blossoms."

Mu Baowen gave Li Shiniang a pot of 'Jade Linglong' with a double petal that bloomed just right. Li Shiniang also likes it very much.

After choosing the flowers, the three of them planned to go back to the Sanhua Building, and when they passed by Qiluo Xuan, Rong Zheng's mind suddenly recalled what happened in Qiluo Xuan last time. She subconsciously touched her neck and shuddered.

"Big brother!" Mu Baowen didn't believe his eyes.

Li Shiniang and Rong Zheng in the back heard Mu Baowen's call and hurriedly looked up, and sure enough, two men not far away were walking towards this side. It was really Mu Xuan who walked in front, followed by Cui Shangzhou.

It's really a place where you don't meet in life!

Mu Xuan also saw the three of them and the maid who followed behind. He bowed slightly. Mu Baowen has always been a little in awe of this brother, so she can't say anything, but when she saw Cui Shangzhou, she turned her head and shouted: "Fifteen Niang, look at Cui Qiye." ”

Li Shiniang glanced at it hurriedly, her face was already red, she lowered her head and said nothing, and gently pulled the corners of Rong Zheng's clothes, urging them to leave quickly.

Rong Zheng couldn't help but shake his mouth and smile, and whispered to Mu Baowen: "Let's go, fifteen mother, she's embarrassed." ”

Mu Baowen sneered: "What's so embarrassing, you will be a family in the future, do you have to hide when you meet in the future." Let's go, maybe Cui Qiye has something to say to Fifteen Niang. So he pulled the zither and was about to leave.

That Cui Shangzhou didn't care about twisting like Li Shiniang, but stepped forward generously and bowed to Li Shiniang. In a panic, Li Shiniang took a few steps back, always blushing and bowing her head: "Cui Gongzi is polite." ”

Mu Baowen pulled Rong Zheng and stood under the wisteria trellis and laughed.

Mu Xuan glanced at them, and Mu Baowen hurriedly smiled. She has a total of three brothers, but she doesn't know how to get along with this eldest brother. Rong Zheng also noticed Mu Baowen's strangeness, and whispered to Mu Baowen: "Let's go back to Sanhualou." ”

Mu Baowen thought that it would be inappropriate to leave Li Shiniang here, so he said to Rong Zheng: "You wait for me here." ”

Mu Baowen walked towards Li Shiniang. Rong Zheng stood alone under the wisteria trellis, a little helpless. Mu Xuan took a few steps closer to her and said to her, "It turns out that Miss Rongsan is also here today." ”

Rong Zheng said with a smile: "Yes, Miss Mu San invited me in the next post." ”

Mu Xuan said again: "Cui Shangzhou's affairs are thanks to your help. ”

Rong Zheng thought twice before he remembered that Cui Shangzhou had stayed at Bai Shengchun's house, and said indifferently: "It's nothing." You don't have to thank me. ”

Mu Xuan said again: "Where has Lei Bo been recently, I asked people to look for him, why didn't I find him?" ”

"He ......" Rong Zheng opened his mouth, and he heard Mu Baowen calling her: "Miss Rong San, we should go over." ”

Rong Zheng owed a debt, and hurriedly said to Mu Xuan: "He lives in Xinghua Lane. He hurried to catch up with Mu Baowen.

Rong Zheng's words when he said goodbye were so hurried that Mu Xuan didn't hear them clearly. I also want to ask her again, but she has already followed Mu Baowen and Li Shiniang.

Rong Zheng walked with his head down, Mu Baowen and Li Shiniang didn't know what to say.

Later, Mu Baowen suddenly turned his head and asked Rong Zheng: "Are you familiar with my eldest brother?" ”

"Oh, no. Only met a few times once in a while. ”

Mu Baowen smiled: "Really? Just now I saw my eldest brother talking to you, and I thought you knew each other very well. By the way, you're more familiar with the third brother, right? ”

Rong Zheng was a little dazed, not knowing how to answer her.

When I returned to Sanhualou, I was still singing "Kite Mistake" on the stage. Rong Zheng was still sitting next to Li Shiniang. After a while, Mrs. Li was going to send a maid to invite Li Shiniang.

"Miss Fifteen, Madame asked you to accompany her to the clean room."

"Oh." Li Shiniang is still because she saw Cui Shangzhou just now and said a few words, but she hasn't come back to her senses yet.

There was only one maid by Mrs. Li's side, and Li Shiniang accompanied Mrs. Li out of the Sanhua Building. Mrs. Li didn't really want to go to the clean room, but stood in the corner of the wall and asked Li Shiniang in a low voice.

"Where did you go just now?"

Li Shiniang naturally remembered that she had met Cui Shangzhou in private, panicked, and said with a red face: "I went to Miss Mu San's banana restaurant." Miss Mu San also gave me a pot of daffodils. She didn't say a word about seeing Cui Shangzhou.

Mrs. Li said, "You don't have much to do with the third lady of the Rong family. ”

Li Shiniang was very surprised, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Mrs. Li said: "Her stepmother said a lot of bad things about her, whether it was true or not. Her stepmother is not in tune, and the third lady will not be much better. You should stay away from these people. Beware of breaking you. ”

Li Shiniang hurriedly defended: "Miss Rongsan is a very good person, maybe there is some misunderstanding in this." ”

Mrs. Li didn't care about this, and said: "It doesn't matter if she's good or not, many wives and grandmothers have heard what her stepmother said, and her reputation is not very good." If you follow her, you will be damaged. You just said kiss here, don't blame me for not reminding you. Beware of the dislike of the Cui family in the future. ”

Li Shiniang still didn't understand. When she returned here, Rong Zheng was talking to Li Twelve Niang.

After Li Shiniang sat down, she whispered in Rong Zheng's ear: "Are you and your stepmother in the ring?" ”

Rong Zheng was a little dazed, and she shook her head.

Li Shiniang said in a low voice: "This is strange. Your stepmom is going around saying bad things about you. ”

Rong Zheng was very surprised. (To be continued.) )()