Someone in the courtyard saw Ling'er's and grinned, "Look, Miss Zhiling has come out." ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at Ling'er when they heard the voice, staring at Ling'er with scrutinizing eyes, Ling'er also looked at the people who came one by one, I'm really sorry, it seems that I really don't know any of them, but a few seem to be a little familiar, I don't know where I've seen them?

Oh, there is one who knows, look at the delicate woman behind the young ladies who stood up slowly, looked at her provocatively with her chin slightly raised, isn't Zhilan who is it?

Oh, it turned out to be her, so this group of ladies is naturally deliberately brought by her to make me ugly? If you know what you mean, I'd like to see what tricks you can come up with?

Ling'er walked over slowly with a smile: "I don't know that the sisters are coming, I'm really sorry for the disappointment." Chunqiao, go and move the chair out for everyone to sit on. ”

Chunqiao hurriedly took the autumn cicada and Qiu Ming to work together, there were only a few people in Ling'er's yard, there were originally a few rough and miscellaneous people, Ling'er felt that there were many people and the trouble had already been sent away, so such a heavy wooden chair Chunqiao Qiu Cicada Qiu Ming The three of them could lift it, the speed was slow, fortunately with the help of the third sister, the speed was faster.

There were a large number of young ladies and maids standing in the courtyard, all of them talking to each other, or hiding their faces and snickering, and none of them helped, so they had to wait, like watching a play.

Seeing the third sister roll up her skirt and roll up her sleeves and come out with a big wooden chair alone, one of the young ladies sneered: "Miss Zhiling, your maid is really strong, and she looks sturdy, can one top several?" ”

The other maids and ladies ate and snickered, and Ling'er also smiled and said, "That's true." It's no problem to top two or three of your maids, I don't believe you can compete. ”

The young lady's eyes lit up: "Oh? Than what? ”

Ling'er grinned: "Look at her five big and three thick appearance, what else can you compare?" Of course, it's more than strength. It's okay to fight than to fight, but don't complain if you suffer. ”

The young lady smiled even more happily: "We are all from big families, how can we be like that reckless man in the countryside, of course, we should compare piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, needlework and female red, presumably Miss Zhiling can be favored by Jia Gongzi, there must be a special skill, and it just so happens that the sisters are here." Miss Zhiling might as well put on a show and let us open our eyes, okay? ”

The ladies responded: "Yes, yes." Miss Zhiling, let us open our eyes! ”

At this time, the chairs in the courtyard had been set up, and in a circle, a total of eight young ladies came. There was a flower hall in the Ling'er house to entertain guests. But she really didn't want this group of unkind warblers Yanyan to enter the house and disturb the cleanliness.

She sat down on the main seat by herself, and then stretched out her hand to make a gesture of invitation, and the ladies took their seats one after another, and Zhilan sat in the farthest position from Ling'er.

Miss Fang Cai said again: "Miss Zhiling, you haven't performed for us yet." ”

Ling'er looked at her with a smile: "May I ask this sister's surname?" How come I have never met my sister? ”

The young lady's face froze, she glanced back at Zhiyu, and then smiled: "Sister Zhiling is really, your mother is my own aunt." Did you climb the high branches and don't even know me, my cousin? ”

It turned out to be Zhiyu's own cousin. No wonder everything came out, Ling'er looked at the young lady secretly, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I really don't have an impression, although my mother reluctantly accepted me into her name, she never introduced me to any relatives, right, Sister Zhiyu?" ”

Zhiyu coughed dryly: "Where is it?" Obviously, every time my cousins and cousins come, I send someone to invite you, but you don't come. ”

The surprised eyes of the other young ladies turned around Zhiyu and Ling'er twice, each with different looks in their eyes, and they only cared about watching the play, some disdainful of Ling'er, and some sympathetic to Zhiyu, anyway, none of them stood on Ling'er's side.

Also, Ling'er admitted that she was the adopted daughter who had just been fostered under the name of the eldest lady of the Ye family, and there was such a vulgar maid, it seemed that she didn't even know how to play the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, needlework, how could such a rough woman be worthy of the suave and talented eldest son of the Jia family?

Zhiyu's cousin turned back to Fang Cai's topic: "Sister Zhiling, don't hide it, we are here to ask you for talent, if you don't give us a show, we won't leave today, right, sisters?" ”

The young ladies naturally responded, Ling'er picked up the teacup and played it twice, and said lightly: "I'm not an artist in a teahouse, so I want to learn from you to the wrong place." ”

Ling'er's words didn't show mercy to anyone, and she suddenly turned her face when she greeted her with a smile, which made the young ladies stunned, and they looked at each other at a loss.

Zhilan stood up: "Sister Ling'er, how can you talk like this?" These young ladies are all distinguished guests of our Ye Mansion, do you know who they are? ”

Ling'er raised her eyes to look at her: "Of course I don't know, the sisters came over without passing on the word and introducing them, and they asked me to perform when they entered the door, did you treat me as a monkey on the street?" ”

All the young ladies are very embarrassed, and their faces are ugly, you look at me, I look at you. There was silence in the courtyard for a while, and a young lady stood up, took out a box and walked to Ling'er:

"Miss Zhiling, my surname is Cui, my girlfriend's name is Shanshan, this year's fourteenth, my mother's surname is Jia, and your future husband, Jun Jia, is the same family. The wedding date with Brother Yang is approaching, I have prepared a little gift, one is to bless Miss Zhiling and Brother Yang to grow old together, and the other is to get to know your sister, we will be relatives in the future, I hope to move around more, do you think it is good? ”

Ling'er saw that Cui Shanshan was quite polite and spoke sincerely, so she stood up and accepted the gift and thanked her.

Other ladies also gave gifts when they saw it, of course, these are the makeup they added for Ling'er, listening to the introduction of these young ladies, most of them are the children of official eunuchs, and some people in the family are Lin Chengren's colleagues.

The other party spoke well, Ling'er naturally wouldn't be lazy, there were all the etiquette that should be there, and finally it was the cousin's turn to stir up trouble, although she was reluctant, she still came to send the wooden box, Ling'er opened it on the spot, there was only a silver hairpin inside, Ling'er smiled deliberately: "Cousin's gift is light and affectionate, I remember, thank you!" ”

The surrounding ladies all looked at the cousin with strange eyes, the little cousin's face turned red after brushing, this silver hairpin was worth one or two taels of silver at most, looking at the wooden box she used was bright and beautiful, and I thought it was a good thing, it was too small.

Zhiyu coughed lightly and blocked the little cousin behind her, and opened the wooden box before handing it to Ling'er: "Sister Ling'er, this is a genuine night pearl of the East China Sea, don't look at it, it's not big, but it's in good condition, I've been using it for several years, I was reluctant to do it, but ...... Who called you my sister-in-law, come, take it. ”

The ladies came over to see the pearl of the night, Zhiyu proudly covered it with her hand, and sure enough, when she saw the glow inside, the ladies couldn't help but be amazed for a while, and they praised Zhiyu for her generosity.

Ling'er reluctantly laughed at them for a while, the little cousin was humiliated by Ling'er when she wanted to find something to do, everyone understood that this Miss Zhiling was not easy to bully, and after sitting for a while, they got up and said goodbye. (To be continued......)