Shu Wangjin led Lin Mei to the Flower Hall, who knew what the people at that table were thinking, and when they finally appeared in the Flower Hall, no one was looking at him.

"This looks so handsome!"

Lin Mei hung her head and just stepped into the flower hall, when she heard the joyful voice of a middle-aged woman, she couldn't help but look up, and saw that there were four people sitting on the big table in the middle at this time, among which the woman in yellow she had seen was Shu Wangjin's eldest sister, and the other three should be Shu Wangjin's brother-in-law and father......

Mrs. Shu and Master Shu looked at Lin Mei with a smile, their faces full of love, and Shu Yujin and Zhao Yun also looked at her with a smile, looking like her.

"Lin Mei has seen Master Shu and Mrs. Shu......" Lin Mei's mind was in turmoil, and she suddenly remembered that she still had to salute, so she learned to remember Liu Yufei's appearance of giving her father a salute, and just when she was about to bow down to Shu Yujin and Zhao Yun, Shu Yujin came over and helped her up, and said softly, "If I and Xianggong, you don't have to salute." ”

Master Shu nodded and motioned to the maid behind him to hold a small box, and said loudly, "Little girl, this is a small piece carved from mutton fat white jade, and it is regarded as a meeting gift." ”

Although Lin Mei's age is indeed an old girl in other people's families, the two descendants of the Shu family are older than her, and even Shu Yujin married at the age of seventeen, so Master Shu called Lin Mei a little girl.

Lin Mei listened to Master Shu's words, and her eyes were straight when she looked at the small box, she had only heard of such good things as mutton fat and white jade, where she was telling stories and singing. In that small place in Linshan County, there is also a small piece of Guanyin Bodhisattva pendant carved from mutton fat and white jade, and it is also passed down from the ancestors.

"The lord is so generous. How can I be stingy? Mrs. Shu smiled, turned to the maidservant standing behind her, and ordered, "Bring up the Dongyi Kingdom Double Embroidery Fan I received on Qixi this year, that fan is delicate and chic, it should be played by you young people, but it's a pity that my family Yu Jin has never liked such daughters' playthings, and today I saw Miss Lin so stable and generous." Gentle and virtuous, it can be regarded as one of my wishes. ”

"......" Lin Mei stood stiffly in place, and had only seen one time. Where did Mrs. Shu see that she was gentle, virtuous and steady? Sure enough, Shu Wangjin's excellent quality of talking to people and talking nonsense is not for nothing!

The maidservant behind Mrs. Shu bowed when she heard this, answered with a crisp voice, and opened the heavy wooden box carved by Xiaoye Rosewood, which was originally held in her hand, and suddenly a faint fragrance came. Lin Mei only felt that the fragrance was good. I just don't know what the scent is.

Shu Yujin also pursed her lips and smiled at this time, sure enough, she was different from other girls, hearty and atmospheric, "I just said that you will hurt people, Miss Lin, this fan is a gift from the envoy of Dongyi Kingdom some time ago, it is said to be embroidered on both sides, and it is ingenious." The fan bone is made of agarwood with water, and it is said that it can be fragrant for more than ten years. Those who hear it are relaxed and happy, and they will not get sick for a long time. ”

Lin Mei's eyes lit up when she heard this, it turned out that this inconspicuous little fan had so many origins! She slowly gave another salute and said softly, "Thank you Master Shu and Mrs. Shu for your kindness." ”

"Send it to the curtain house." Shu Wangjin stood behind Lin Mei, and commanded the two maidservants holding the brocade box in a deep voice, then stepped forward and said with a smile, "Dad, mother, since everyone has come, let's eat." ”

Shu Yujin smiled at Lin Mei, raised her hand and pointed to the empty stool next to her, motioning for her to take a seat.

There was a gentle drizzly scene at the family banquet, but Lin Mei couldn't swallow it, Master Shu and Mrs. Shu had been looking at her with very strange eyes and ambiguous looks, from top to bottom, from beginning to end, Lin Mei's right hand holding chopsticks couldn't help but tremble, and then chewed slowly and swallowed the piece of chicken in the bowl, trying to create a beautiful image of herself as a pure girl.

Finally finished a meal, Master Shu symbolically said a few words of greetings and left with Mrs. Shu first, Shu Yujin and Zhao Yun then returned to their own courtyard, and when they left, Shu Yujin also gave Lin Mei a meaningful smile.

"Daddy, sister and brother-in-law have left, and the autumn rain has disappeared at this time, why don't you take Miss Lin to this curtain house at night?" Withdrawing from the people around her, Shu Wangjin looked at Lin Mei with a light smile, her eyes full of warmth.

"Leaning on the curtain? Where is it? Lin Mei didn't know that the room where she bathed and drank medicine before was the curtain house, and she didn't know that it was the main house of the curtain house, where the future mother of the Shu family lived.

Shu Wangjin smiled brightly, held a shining lantern, and walked out of the hall with Lin Mei, "It is the courtyard that Miss Lin passed by before, called Leaning on the Curtain House, taken from the poems of the previous dynasty, which means 'Yiren leaning on the curtain to look forward to who returns', although it is now the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the evening lotus back to the lingering pond is still open, slim and jade, along the way the cinnamon is fragrant, the moon is clear, but it is beautiful." ”

Lin Mei was thinking about it when she heard it, but she remembered the strange looks of the people in Shufu who looked at her during the previous meal, and couldn't help but be a little worried, "Shu Wangjin, isn't your father and your mother unhappy that you took me in?" ”

Take in......

Shu Wangjin wanted to laugh, he carried her into Shu Mansion openly, and placed her in the Curtain House, so if it was only taken in, the young ladies who had been talking to him in the past would probably be angry, right?

"Miss Lin, don't worry, my father and mother are ...... It's just a matter of playing......" Shu Wangjin talked about his father, with a slight helplessness in his tone, but there was a faint smile in his eyes.

When Mr. Shu was only twelve years old, he took on the responsibility of the Shu family, although the Shu family was only a merchant, but it was a big family in the capital, living here for generations, intertwined, up and down, including those distant relatives, there were as many as seven or eight hundred people, so when the twelve-year-old Shu became the new head of the Shu family, he was squeezed out by a lot of sidelines, and it took ten years to finally clean up the Shu family, so Shu Wangjin has great respect for Shu Lao, even if now Shu is fighting cocks and playing crickets outside every day. Shu Wangjin's respect for him has not decreased by half a point.

As the two spoke, they had already stepped into the corridor of the curtain house, where carved palace lamps were hung every few steps. In the distance and near the flowers and plants, there is a special lamp stand that can shelter from the wind and rain, and even the osmanthus tree next to it is more than ten meters high There are palace lanterns. The warm yellow light slowly shone down, and for a moment the courtyard was as bright as the sky.

Lin Mei stretched out her hand, and the breeze was gentle, and it was covered with a palm of golden cinnamon, with a slight moisturizing feeling, and the smell was sweet.

"Shu Wangjin, how did you hang the light on this tree?" Lin Mei stopped next to the osmanthus tree. Looking up curiously, in the dark night of the night, a tree was sporadically lit. It looks like a fairyland on earth.

"The Shu family has a small servant who is responsible for lighting the lamp at night, but the palace lamp on this tree will only be lit during the festival and New Year's period, and the next day those little maids will take down the palace lamp on these trees and continue to light it at night. Cycle. Shu Wangjin walked up to Lin Mei. Staring at the tall laurel tree, his words were gentle, "The fire tree and silver flowers never sleep, and the full moon sings and dances; That Rong hundred ethnic groups are in Khotan, and the good night festival is unprecedented. ”

"Fire trees and silver flowers never sleep......" Lin Mei murmured, although she didn't understand the meaning of this poem, but listening to the words of this sentence, the artistic conception should be very beautiful. But...... She'd seen a flower mold made of silver, but. In this world...... And a tree that makes its own fire?!

Shu Wangjin saw Lin Mei's ignorant appearance and knew that she didn't understand the meaning of this poem at all, so Wen Yan explained, "'Fire trees and silver flowers never sleep' refers to the bright lights, the trees are full of lights, and the gorgeous night scene of fireworks, from a distance, it seems to be the appearance of fire trees and silver flowers, and there will be a fireworks festival in the capital tomorrow night, which is very appropriate to describe with this poem." ”

"Fireworks party? Fireworks in the capital...... Isn't it beautiful? Lin Mei remembered the fireworks set off in Linshan County every time, sparsely sparse and sparse, just a few years ago, Luo Zhenfang's shopkeeper Luo Zhenfang ordered someone to set off one hundred and eight fireworks on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she and Lin Shi were scolded by Lin Matchmaker in order to watch the fireworks.

Shu Wangjin carefully wiped the golden cinnamon in Lin Mei's palm with a handkerchief, and walked towards her back to the direction of Yingchi, "There will be many kinds of fireworks in the capital, and they are extremely gorgeous, but ...... You can only see the grandest fireworks on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and the fireworks of the Mid-Autumn Festival are nothing more than the fireworks on the night before the Spring Festival. ”

Back to the pond at this time calm waves, lotus branches stand, under the blue waves koi swimming, from time to time to cause ripples.

"This fish is so gorgeous!" Lin Mei could vaguely see the figure of the underwater fish swimming by the large palace lamp hanging next to the fence of the white stone carved railing, red, white, black and yellow mixed, which looked particularly bright under a pool of clear water.

"This is from the country of Dongyi, the name is koi, the color is gorgeous, and its meat is inedible." Shu Wangjin saw that Lin Mei was looking at the golden koi closest to them, and explained, "This is the mountain blowing golden koi, the one with a white body and only a bright round red spot on the top of the head is called the red-crowned three-color koi. ”

"It's so beautiful that you can't eat it......" Lin Mei muttered to herself as she looked at a pool of koi, her face full of disgust.

The corners of Shu Wangjin's mouth twitched, he really broke his brain before he really thought that Lin Mei suddenly wanted to study and ask questions, and used it to eat...... He silently glanced at the red-crowned three-color koi, when the right minister bought more than a dozen koi of various colors from the merchants of Dongyi Kingdom, he spent hundreds of taels of gold, if it was used for cooking......

Burning the qin and boiling the crane, that's probably it!

It was already dusk when Shu Wangjin led Lin Mei to swim in the curtain house, and the design of the curtain house was exquisite, and there were no less than 200 mysterious details, so Shu Wangjin only led Lin Mei to tour it roughly, and then sent her to the main house of the curtain house, and then left.

There were only a few maidservants left in the curtain house at this time, led by Qing Yan, who had helped Lin Mei change her clothes before, she looked at Shu Wangjin's departing back blankly, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

"Qing Yan!" Qing Yu, the purple-clothed maid who originally followed Shu Yujin, came to the Curtain House at some point, and when she saw Qing Yan looking stunned, she couldn't help but shout angrily.

Qing Yan regained his senses at this time, and when he saw that it was the purple-clothed maidservant, her eyes couldn't help but burst into tears, and she whispered, "Sister......"

The two of them are wearing exactly the same purple gauze skirts, and even their facial features are exactly the same, they are twins.

Qing Yu frowned, pulled Qing Yan aside, and whispered, "Why are you outside?" Didn't the eldest young master order you to serve Miss Lin? Zhao Yun and Shu Yujin rested in Shu Mansion at night, so she could secretly come to find her own sister after they fell asleep, but she unexpectedly saw such a scene again.

Qing Yan's eyes turned red when she heard this, and she pouted and said, "Qing Zhi is serving her to wash inside, sister...... What kind of young lady is she! A village girl doesn't even know basic etiquette! I'm not reconciled to ......"

Qingyu has always cherished her sister, but she just covered Qingyan's mouth and asked her to be quieter, so as not to have ears on the wall.

At the beginning, their sisters were bought by Mrs. Shu, one was sent to serve Shu Wangjin, and the other was to serve Shu Yujin, and the two of them can be said to be the maids who have accompanied the two young masters of Shu Mansion for the longest time, so other subordinates, even the housekeepers of Shu Mansion, have to give them some thin noodles.

But since Shu Wangjin rescued a street beggar when he was seven or eight years old and brought him back to Shufu to be a personal servant, Qing Yan could only guard the Xiuwen Academy every day and guard the empty courtyard alone, so even now, Qing Yan didn't have a good face when he saw Shu Zhou; And Shu Wangjin has been calm and steady since she was a child, and she has been running business outside at the age of eleven or twelve, and now Qingyan can't even see Shu Wangjin, and she has failed a girl's heart.

"Qing Yan, do you really love the eldest young master?" Qing Yan is naturally on the side of her sister, not to mention a net worth like Shu Wangjin, three wives and four concubines are not exaggerated at all, in such a family, it is common for maids who have been close to her since childhood to be taken in.

When Qing Yan saw her sister asking like this, she knew that she must have already had an idea in her heart, so she was overjoyed and asked, "Sister, do you have a way?" ”

Over the years, Shu Wangjin has also stayed in Shu Mansion for one or two months every year, Qingyan has tried every possible way, all kinds of soups and medicinal foods have happened to encounter strange things, but unfortunately Shu Wangjin didn't buy it at all, and even once she deliberately burned her wrist and put the whitebait soup in front of Shu Wangjin, and intentionally or unintentionally exposed the wound, and then, Shu Wangjin saw it, he said......

"Why are the burns so bad?"

Then Qing Yan just wanted to answer shyly, Shu Wangjin continued, "Shu Zhou, why don't you go and help Qing Yan ask for a doctor, can't you even afford a scald medicine in the dignified Shu Mansion?" Qing Yan, next time you should be careful, the woman with burn scars on her body in this dynasty is said to have married not very well later, and a maid of the eldest lady of the Guogong Mansion next door heard that it was because of a wrist injury that she had to marry a housekeeper who was in her forties and had two or three sons in Zhuangzi outside. ”

Qing Yan turned shyness into shyness and walked away, and he didn't dare to see Shu Wangjin in those months. (To be continued.) )