Within two days, except for the third master, the third lady Yu came back with the others.

When they got home, they missed dinner, and before they finished washing, the third lady sent a grandmother to Qingyi Yuan to complain, saying that it would be too late to greet Old Lady Gu tonight, and she would come again tomorrow morning to greet Yuyi.

Gu Ci saw them the next afternoon. It is said that the fifth lady and the ninth sister waited at the gate of the courtyard of the third room in the morning, ready to bring the people from the third room to greet Yuyi. The third lady was ready to go out of the house, but when she heard this, she lay back, called several children to serve her, and served tea to the fifth lady four times, and had no intention of leaving food at all, so she sent the five ladies away.

The third lady Yu gave birth to a dignified goose egg face, with slender willow eyebrows delicately depicted, and her eyes were also slightly raised, and her face was coated with fat powder, which made her skin look very good. The fourth sister Gu Yue is very similar to her mother, she is twelve years old this year, and the eighth sister Gu Xiaoyu is more beautiful, and she follows behind her mother and sister quietly and softly. The fourth brother Gu Hong is one year younger than Gu Ao's twins, and he looks quite like the third lady, and he will soon go to Heming Academy to study, and the ninth brother Gu Ying is one year older than Gu Yi, and he doesn't want to go to home school, but it is not certain whether he can enter Heming Academy. The third lady was in a hurry to ask for peace today, and she also wanted to ask Yuyi to help implement this matter.

After hearing this, Yuyi directly asked the two boys to go to the East Courtyard to find Gu Yi, who was taking a break from school, and threw it to her youngest son to solve.

The third lady said with admiration, "The princess is really blessed, and the twelve Lang are all used." ”

Yuyi said modestly, "Boy, we raise it roughly, and we can't worry about this little girl on weekdays, so we can only let them toss it themselves." ”

"The county lord Yuxue is cute, and it will be smooth and smooth in the future, and the blessing will be long."

"Accept your good words. I told you in the letter, the Dragon Boat Festival invited some people to have a banquet, you just came back, I don't think you have prepared the fashionable clothes and jewelry in Beijing, and you will measure the size or something, and make a piece with Luan, which will save you from tossing. ”

"I won't be polite to the princess," the third lady smiled and turned her head to Gu Ci and said, "This is all thanks to the county lord, and I will let the two sisters thank you well." ”

"The third aunt is so polite, I like the gifts you and my sisters gave me."

She is telling the truth, the third lady gave her a longevity lock and a small incense burner of gold and silver cloisonné peony flowers, the process is complex and delicate, can be used to smoke essential oils, the fourth sister gave her her own incense, and the eighth sister gave her a small embroidery screen of cattle and sheep inlaid with thatch and dead branches, which can be seen as a gift with heart.

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The third lady didn't sit for long before leaving, and met the mother and daughter of the fifth lady who came in a hurry, the third lady immediately leaned on the mother and looked weak, and greeted the fifth lady, "Fifth brother and sister, are you going to Qingyi Yuan?" But unfortunately, the eldest princess was tired. ”

The fifth lady said hatefully, "Why didn't the third sister-in-law wait for us to come together?" Now that we're all here, I'd better go over and say goodbye. ”

The third lady smiled and took the children to say goodbye to her and walked away.

The fifth lady's not pretty face turned blue and white, and she held her daughter's hand tightly and walked towards the Qingyi Courtyard.

"Unfortunately, the princess has already rested." Mama Xie said to the fifth lady and mother and daughter who were waiting for tea.

The fifth lady blurted out, "Didn't the third sister-in-law just come!" ”

Mama Xie smiled slightly, this person is even more strange than before, the third lady has only been here, can't the princess just rest? Listening to the meaning of this, do you still suspect that the eldest princess is avoiding? Just deliberately didn't want to see it, what could she do?!

"After the third lady left, the princess thanked her."

The fifth lady took two steps forward with a smile on her face, took Mama Xie's hand and stuffed it into a bulging purse, "Where are our mother and daughter guests, please help us report it again." Sister Jing hasn't seen the county lord for a long time, and she misses it so much. ”

Mama Xie's fingers were slightly loose, she didn't hold the purse in her palm, and lowered her eyes and said, "The old slave doesn't dare to disturb the princess." ”

The fifth lady's smile couldn't be maintained any longer, she withdrew her hand, and by the way, she pulled back the purse that was stuffed into Mama Xie's hand, the corners of her mouth moved a few times, she swallowed a breath, and forced a smile, "Then we'll come back another day." ”

Seeing this, Gu Jing couldn't help but be angry, he drank a belly of tea at the third aunt's in the morning and no one paid attention to it, and now the Qingyi Yuan is eating a closed door again, and even a servant woman didn't put her mother in her eyes, and shouted angrily, "It's too much deception!" The princess's minions are so presumptuous? Why can the third aunt go in, we will ......"

The fifth lady hurriedly covered her mouth and pulled her away.

Mama Xie bowed indifferently: "The old slave sent the fifth lady and the ninth girl." ”

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Gu Ci didn't pay attention to this little episode at all, obviously her mother didn't plan to pay attention to the five rooms, let alone let them participate in the Dragon Boat Luncheon, and she didn't even let the courtyard door in, so she concentrated on arranging the banquet.

This time, there were no male guests, only the ladies brought the girls, so the banquet was chosen in Yusuju and Ruicheng Xiaodu, in the southwest corner of the Lifang Garden, leading to all directions are bridges, chains, even if the girls and maids can row, good at swimming, there is no 'chance encounter', 'out of the garden' and see the foreign man.

The main house of Yusuju is a five-room room, the middle three rooms are opened into a spacious hall, and the left and right sides are surrounded by buildings, which can be arranged for people to take a break or change clothes. In the hall, looking into the distance, it is the Ruicheng Xiaodu surrounded by the nine-song corridor not far away.

The name of Ruicheng Xiaodu is like a ferry, in fact, it is a water pavilion in the shape of a painted boat, the dome is tall, the carved beams are painted, and the door of the Ming Dynasty is fully opened, and you can enjoy the cool breeze of the water waves. In order to prevent mosquitoes, the tender green silk veil curtain hung on the day was soaked in mint water in advance, and the pavilion was incensed with wormwood every day.

Gu Ci also transplanted a large piece of calamus with a large amount of calamus, and transferred a group of fat ducks and geese on the Zhuangzi to respond to the scene, so that a pool of lotus leaves that have not yet bloomed is much more vivid.

Whether it is Yu Suju or Ruicheng Xiaodu, there are several rows of small round tables for four people in the middle of the banquet that day, and there is a soft couch next to it that can be leaned on and lying on.

The main dish is fish, the head is as big as a bucket, the delicious silver carp is naturally a good material for making pickled pepper fish head, the fat and tender mandarin fish is made into a squirrel, the catfish meat is thick and juicy, and the braised is the best. The soup is made of jade green fruit soup and peach juice rice wine, the former is spinach juice and noodles, which are rolled into balls with shrimp and minced shrimp and put into fish soup, and the latter is a japonica rice wine mixed with fresh peach juice, which is sweet and refreshing.

Originally, as the main family, Gu Yi and Gu Yue should entertain the guests together with Gu Ci, but Yuyi obviously didn't have this plan, and didn't even invite a few concubines, only let the nieces come as guests, but told Ren Saiyuan to come early in advance.

Gu Ci knew that the third sister-in-law would accompany her to take the lead in the future, so she was obviously too happy, she woke up early and sat in Yin Wuju, so that Yuyi had a good time with dressing up her daughter.

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As soon as breakfast was removed, Ren Saiyuan arrived, she also dressed up seriously today, the fourteen-year-old age has already shown the vigor and brightness of a girl, her face is delicate and pink, her eyebrows and eyes are open and atmospheric, her eyes are bright and clear, and it seems that she will always contain a pool of clear and waveless water, which makes people feel good when they look at it. She is wearing a light blue silk yarn top, the same color embroidery thread is painted with bluegrass on the edge of the collar sleeves, silver thread hooks, and a water blue pleated skirt is tied underneath, the thin pleats are very exquisite, in addition to the same embroidery pattern as the blouse, the corners of the skirt are embroidered with various colors of butterflies between the folds, yellow, white and blue pink, walking around like a group of butterflies wearing flowers, very interesting. The ornaments are also a set of butterfly love flowers, with a jade butterfly-shaped pendant collar hanging from the chest, the same jade butterfly earrings on the ears, a fallen horse hair on the head, a fragrant hosta with an orchid incense, and a few small and exquisite golden twisted silk dancing butterflies are distracted, which is eye-catching but will not dominate.

Gu Ci is too young, Yuyi simply cleaned up the dolls she painted back then, her jet-black soft hair is still a cute little mustache shape, but it is wrapped with red coral flowers and pink tourmaline made of hanging beads, which fall on the ears and shake very cutely. A half-transparent silk yarn cross-collar waist-length wide-sleeved skirt with lychee red envelope and silver edge, with a moon-white white gauze dress inside, the corners and cuffs of the skirt are full of begonias for spring embossed embroidery, pearls are stamens, and gold thread hook edges. The waist is a jade belt separated by jujube large beeswax, nine pieces of carved phoenix pattern lamb fat jade pendant, the palace silk pendant is a pair of staggered peach blossom jade Pisces Jue, the wrist is also a peach blossom jade bracelet, the right side of the neckline is actually decorated with a row of small Ming buttons, from a distance people think it is embroidered, close up to find that it is the little thumb nail cover so big red agate beads carved into a nine-petal lotus platform.

This body made Ren Saiyuan can't help but praise her around her, Gu Ci himself was not overwhelmed by the bright and luxurious clothes, his face was moist and snowy, as if it was shining, like a good goat milk cream, peach blossom eyes were big and rippling, thin eyebrows and nose, and bright teeth and cherry lips, so tender that they looked like freshly emerging flowers and bones with dew, which had shown a bit of rare alluring color.

Watching the two beautiful girls of all sizes praising each other, Yuyi was in a good mood early in the morning, she didn't have to care about any rules in her own house, she wore mother-daughter clothes, a begonia red, but she was far from dressing her daughter so gorgeously, and even in order to take care of the eldest princess of Qingyi, who had been widowed for many years with her daughter today, she didn't even wear gold ornaments, only used a set of jade peony heads.

A few people were talking, and when they heard Ganyu's report, Gu Yi came over with the maid himself, saying that he wanted to ask Gu Ci if he needed her help.

Yuyi looked at her daughter and motioned for her to dispose of it.

Gu Ci had some unusual feelings for this fellow in his heart, but Gu Yi's move was obviously to come here earlier to be half a master. borrowed her own face to put gold on other people's faces, she was still reluctant, and it was not good for the other sisters, so she asked Ganyu to refuse, "Just tell the fifth sister to come on time, you don't have to come in advance and sit in a daze." ”

Yuyi smiled slightly, and also instructed Cai Gu: "Let the people at the west gate and the moon cave gate take care of it, and when the girls over there are here, close the west door, so as not to disturb the guests." ”

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Gu Yi listened to Ganyu's reply, and went back to his yard without saying anything.

The fourth lady saw that she was not very interested, and comforted: "Before you go, didn't you also think that the eldest princess might not be accepted, don't take it to heart, just settle down easily, let's have a good day there today." The Qingyi Yuan's Lifang Garden was originally the princess's mansion of the past dynasties, which was no worse than the Imperial Garden. ”

"Mother, I didn't think about how the eldest princess would treat me closely, but as soon as the third aunt came back, the eldest princess of the fourth sister and the eighth sister had all the clothes, and she always had a face-saving relationship with us, and she was too favoritistic."

The fourth lady sighed, after her daughter turned ten years old, she thought about it a lot, and the matter of the Qiao Qin family made her more nervous about her marriage than ever before, so she was very concerned about today's banquet.

After all, the Qiao family had a close relationship with their brother and sister before, and they didn't want to hit Gu Xin with the idea in order to get rid of Qiao Yu. The rift has been formed, and there may be less closeness to the Qiao family in the future.

If the daughter can have a place at the eldest princess's banquet this time, it will be to enter a completely different circle. Not to mention getting acquainted with the royal family of the clan, many of the families of the ministers and celebrities and the Guogong Mansion are also in the Qingyi Academy, and no one will think of dealing with an old lady Gu who is not a good person or a fourth master who does nothing.

"Ashan, you don't have to compare this with Sanfang, they have their own luck, and you also have what you're good at. It's enough to do what you can. ”

"Respectfully." Gu Yi had long regarded the fourth lady as his biological mother, and he had always listened carefully to her teachings.

In fact, in addition to being a little dissatisfied with Yuyi's difference in her heart, she was more concerned about the lack of an opportunity to get closer to the Changfang family.

The main thing is that she found that some things are different from history.

Yuan Yidu was fifteen years old before he was crowned prince, which is completely different from what is written in the history books' 'born as a prince and participated in politics at the age of seven'. And he should have been married before the age of fifteen, and not yet. Although there has been no serious discrepancy or significant impact at the moment, it has always made her curious and confused.

During the years when the prince was studying in the Qingyi Academy, she didn't think about getting acquainted, but unfortunately, whether it was under the banner of seeing Gu Ci or visiting the eldest princess and her husband and wife during the New Year's holidays, she didn't even have the opportunity to enter the west door to drink tea. It was not easy to visit Gu Ci, who had recovered from her injuries and left the palace, but this cute and delicate twelfth sister couldn't understand her side knocks at all.

Yes, it's true that I don't understand, not pretending to be stupid.

For example, she asked: "If you don't go to the palace school, will it be boring?" Did you miss your schoolwork? ”

The people laughed out of their dimples and replied, "No, Bajie accompanies me, I have done my homework well." ”

"Then who will give you a correction?"

"Master goes every day."

"This time I was naughty and injured, the Queen Mother didn't blame her, right?"

"No, I can't go home, my mother is very angry, but they are very happy."

"Are the other people in the palace visiting you?"

"No, the Queen Mother only saw them on the fifteenth day of the first month, and they usually don't come, but they give a lot of things."

"The prince is so good with you, you should be too naughty this time, right?" If you don't ask the word prince directly, I'm afraid she won't be able to answer the point until it gets dark.

"No ......"

It's a pity that the big girl next to Gu Ci is too eye-catching, and as soon as the prince is mentioned, she interrupts the conversation by serving tea and persuading her to eat snacks, so that she doesn't dare to act rashly again.

And after Gu resigned and returned home, the prince showed up on the day he sent it, and he never came again.

There are different opinions outside, and most of them think that the uncle and his wife are annoyed that the prince's guards are not effective, so they are not allowed to come to the door, but there are many reasons. It is said that Gu Ci's injury in the palace was caused by the prince's carelessness, and he took her to climb a rockery and was almost disfigured; It is also said that the other concubines are not angry that a little girl is so beautiful, and they can sit at the same table with the Queen Mother, so they take action to rectify it; There is even more outrageous saying that Gu Ci played right and wrong and ruined the prince's marriage, so that the people who were expected to enter the East Palace returned with a feather.

Isn't this the Xiangcheng Hou family who was reprimanded by the Queen Mother in Cining Palace for 'having no tutor' and losing face.

Xiangcheng Hou Langxing is also stupid, let his wife bring the thin horse into the palace, thinking that he can change his future with his beauty. If it was just in the background of Cining Palace, the Queen Mother saw the friendship between Xiao Lang and the two families who had served together in the army before, so she would have omitted the matter of concubines. Who knew that this concubine was bold and dared to go to the wilderness, and the Queen Mother suddenly stepped on the face of the Hou Mansion. Afterwards, there were such rumors, no matter whether Lang Xing, who spoiled his concubine and killed his wife, was really innocent or was framed, the emperor issued an edict and wiped the title of the Lang family in the future.

Dayu's title was set by Taizong. The duke is divided into five levels, 'dukes and uncles', each of whom is of the third class, and the viscount and baron have no title. All titles are exhausted by the fifth generation, and the rank of the earl is not demoted, and the son is not demoted. The previous sentence refers to the fact that the attack of the earl or above will be descended in the same level first, like Lang Xing, his father is the first-class Marquis of Xiangcheng, he is the second-class, and the son is the third-class, and when he reaches his grandson, the title of 'Marquis of Xiangcheng' will not belong to their family, and he will be reduced to a viscount according to the latter sentence, and his own door can hang a plaque of 'Viscount', of course, he can feel embarrassed and not hang. and the great-grandson, it is not a downgrade but a direct downgrade, that is, the 'Baron's Mansion', but the mansion and Yongye Tian remain unchanged, and they will be taken back together when the Baron is gone.

Now the emperor is like this, which means that after Lang Xing's death, the current Xiangcheng Hou Shizi has nothing, and the whole family, including the old lady, Mrs. Hou and Mrs. Shizi, who still have an edict, have all become ordinary people.

After receiving the order, the Hou family in Xiangcheng made a mess of porridge, and sent the concubine and the thin aunt to the iron pestle nunnery to eat fasting and chanting Buddha, Mrs. Hou thought about it behind closed doors, and the old lady was the initiator, and instigated the concubine to appear, and she was even more angry and paralyzed by a stroke. Now all the children, regardless of age and grandchildren, are whipped by the Marquis of Xiangcheng, and study hard day and night to practice riding and archery, in the hope that when he is alive, he can still produce a figure who can revive the family business.

Since then, no one has dared to chew on the root of the tongue.

In the past, it was said that she was blind, dumb and sickly, or that she had no respect for her elders and sisters after returning home, as well as rumors such as arrogance and domineering and rudeness in the palace, all of which were swept away.

This time, the eldest princess held such a high-profile banquet, and she did not have the intention of raising her eyebrows for her daughter.