In early spring, the weather is still a little cold. There were more than 20 girls standing in the courtyard outside the second gate of the Lin Mansion, Xianglan wore a half-old light red apricot cedar, a bun on her head, and a flower cloth burden in her hand, standing at the end, the girl standing in front of her was about eleven or twelve years old, wearing a half-new flower cloth jacket, a round face, a pair of big eyes, white skin, looking very pleasing, turned around and smiled at Xianglan: "My surname is Liang, my father and mother call me Juanzi, I just bought into the house, sister, where are you from?" ”

Xianglan also smiled and said, "My name is Chen Xianglan, and I am the son of the Lin family. ”

The two talked in a few words, Juanzi had a naïve temperament, and her words were crisp, and they became familiar in a moment. Juanzi said: "I don't know where we are going to serve in the future, you are the son of the family, do you know a lot about the affairs of the Lin family?" What are the old ladies and young masters of the Lin family, tell me about it. ”

Xianglan thought for a while and said in a low voice: "The old lady Lin Zhaoxiang was originally a secretary of the ministry, and later returned to his hometown, and after the emperor ascended the throne, he thought of refuting, but because of his old illness, the old lady Lin only made a sacrificial wine in the country for five years, and then returned to his hometown. Mrs. Lin only has two sons. Lin Changzheng, the eldest son of the Emperor, was a scholar of the two lists, and the point was a Jishi, and after a few years, he returned to the capital and entered the Hanlin Academy, and after a few years, he was transferred to the household servant, married the daughter of the famous family Qin, and had three sons and three daughters, Lin Jinlou was the eldest son, and married the daughter of the family, Zhao; Lin Jinxuan is the second son, who is a concubine and is engaged to the daughter of the Yang family; Lin Jinyuan is a son-in-law, and he is still young; The eldest daughter's maiden name is Lin Dongjun; The second daughter is Lin Dongqi; The third daughter is Lin Dongxiu, who is a concubine.

Lin Changmin, the second son of Mrs. Lin, was a martial artist, and a few years ago he followed Jianwei's general Zhang Huanping to survive the troubles, and now he stays in Jinling as a general. married to the queen of Wenchen, there is only one son-in-law and one daughter-in-law, named Lin Jinting and Lin Dongya. ”

Juanzi said: "So, the eldest master's family is still in the capital?" ”

Xianglan nodded, and said, "It's just that the eldest son of the eldest master, Uncle Lou, was raised by the old lady and the old lady since he was a child. ”

The two talked again, and then the second housekeeper Yang Zhong came out and said, "Be quiet, Uncle Zilou will come to see each other in person, don't make jokes." ”

There was a sudden silence all around, and the girls looked at each other and stopped talking. Xianglan looked up with her burden, and saw a twenty-four-five-year-old young man walking out of the arch, wearing a dark green embroidered orchid eight regiment clothes, the hair of the crow on his head was tied up with a gold and jade crown, his figure was long and straight, with broad shoulders and broad back, his facial features were handsome, and his eyes were like cold stars, majestic and majestic, and he was noble and graceful. It is Lin Jinlou, the eldest grandson of the Lin Mansion.

The youngest of these girls was only eight or nine years old, and the oldest was no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, some of them blushed and bowed their heads, some of them were too ashamed to hide behind them, or some of them hid behind others and peeked out. Xianglan was slightly shocked, and said in her heart: "I saw him twice when I was a child, when I was still a little baby made of pink jade, willful and domineering, naughty and abnormal, he said that he was a personal Tai Sui, I haven't seen him for fourteen years, and he has grown like this, and he looks much more elegant." Thinking that this person had discussed marriage with him, his heart was filled with strange feelings.

Yang Zhong shouted: "Stand up, what did you say." The girls were rearranged in a row, and the roster was handed to Lin Jinlou and said: "There are a total of fifteen girls, ten of whom are born in the family, and five of them are bought, please take a look at them." ”

Lin Jinlou took the roster and looked at each other, and then checked a few off the roster with a brush, and said, "Didn't you say it, if you have a good look, these few are also good?" ”

Yang Zhongha smiled and said: "Some are rough-looking, but they are skillful and can make a good needlework......

Lin Jinlou glanced at Yang Zhong and said, "Is there still a lot of needlework in the house?" The maid must first grow smoothly and look at it in the house to be comfortable. Yang Zhong, you are quite clever on weekdays, isn't this clear? Did a domestic servant stuff you with silver to bring in your daughters and nieces? ”

Yang Zhong shouted: "My lord, how dare the villain!" ”

Lin Jinlou snorted, let the hooked person take away, and the rest asked one by one, and renamed Juanzi "Xiaojuan", when asked about Xianglan, the little maid Shuangxi ran over and said: "Uncle, there are two stewards on the other side of the dock, waiting to see you in the outer courtyard, saying that there is something important." ”

Lin Jinlou immediately said, "I'll go now." After speaking, he remembered that there was the last girl who had not asked, so he drew a circle on Xianglan's name with a pen as a mark, thinking that he would ask her again in the future, and stuffed the roster to Yang Zhongdao: "Just these few, you take them to Jihong Hall, and let the old grandmothers teach the rules for a few days." Then he hurried away.

Yang Zhong summoned Yang Hongying, handed over the roster and the ten selected girls to her, and Yang Hongying immediately took someone to Jihong Hall. Xianglan walked at the end with the burden, looked all the way, only to see that she had walked through the small hall of the second gate, walked on the verandah, and suddenly opened up in front of her, there were carved beams and paintings everywhere, strange flowers and plants, and a meandering water stream meandered from under the corridor, pouring into a small pond surrounded by strange stones from the depths of flowers and trees, like a fairyland.

Xianglan only felt dizzying, and suddenly thought that she lived in the courtyard of the deep house in the capital in her previous life, and the scenery was especially better than here. At that moment, bypassing a large screen carved by ebony clouds, you will see four halls, and behind it is the main courtyard. A maid wearing a silver-red armor was standing on the steps and said to Yang Hongying, "Why did you come?" I've been waiting here for a long time. ”

This maid is called Yingshuang, she is the maid of Lin Jinlou's wife Zhao Yuechan, Yang Hongying knows that Zhao Yuechan and the subordinates around her are not easy to get along with, so she can't help but have a headache, but she smiled on her face, and stepped forward and said, "I don't know what to do with me?" ”

Yingshuang looked arrogant, didn't answer, glanced down the steps, and said, "This is the girl picked by the uncle?" Just a few? After speaking, she didn't wait for Yang Hongying to answer, took the roster from her hand, turned around and said, "Bring them all in, grandma has to see it herself." ”

Yang Hongying couldn't, so she had to take Xianglan and the others inside. After entering the main hall, Xianglan looked up slightly, only to see a bright woman sitting on the chair opposite, wearing a little emerald beads Ruyi big phoenix hairpin, hanging red gold Yingluo circle on the neck, decorated with mutton fat jade, the skirt is tied with colorful silk and flower knots long spike palace silk, wearing a two-color gold peony gown, a rose purple pleated skirt, two thin hanging eyebrows, a pair of watery pandan eyes, glamorous as a peach and plum, the eyes are ruthless and seem to be affectionate, all kinds of romance, very charming.

Yingshuang hurriedly stepped forward and said to the woman: "Grandma, everyone has brought it." ”

Zhao Yuechan took a sip of the tea bowl and said lightly: "Didn't I bring more than 20 of them, why are there only so many left." Saying that, I went to see Yang Hongying.

Yang Hongying hurriedly said: "This was picked by the uncle himself, and the rest were sent back." ”

Zhao Yuechan sneered: "I'll see what the uncle's vision is, and I'll look up." ”

Everyone raised their heads, Zhao Yue looked carefully, and suddenly saw a little girl, wearing a new lake blue dress, a melon seed face was quite pretty, and her eyes were dripping around, so she pointed and said, "What's your name?" ”

The girl was startled and said timidly, "Call...... Uncle Gang changed his name to Yindie. ”

Zhao Yuechan said coldly: "Listen, it's also called Silver Butterfly, and I will take some demon Jiaojiao names." The room was quiet, and no one dared to say anything. Xianglan said secretly: "This grandmother was born like a fairy, but this temperament is like a rakshasa and doesn't look cute." Because Zhao Yuechan was illiterate, she ordered Yingshuang to read the name on the roster, Yingshuang was slightly stunned when she read the last one, held the roster to Zhao Yuechan, pointed to Xianglan's name and whispered: "Grandma, this is called Xianglan, the name let the uncle draw a circle with a brush." ”

Zhao Yuechan raised her eyebrows and said, "Who is Xianglan?" ”

Xianglan said: "It's me." ”

Zhao Yuechan looked Xianglan up and down a few times, and saw that this girl was beautiful and temperamental, her face was gloomy, and she said secretly: "I know that he is in a hurry to let me buy a girl back, and there is an article in it, which is why 'Daddy and his younger siblings live comfortably at home', all for his own idea." Sure enough, I expected it! Looking at Xianglan again, it became more and more unpleasant, and then I heard Yingshuang whisper: "Could it be that grandma wants to drive this little hoof out?" This can't be helped, the uncle has drawn a circle on her name, that is, he has already taken care of her, grandma is not happy with the uncle for a while, and he has driven the person he likes, isn't it another blockage. ”

Zhao Yuechan said with a tense face: "If you don't drive out, I'll add to the blockage." ”

Yingshuang said: "I have an idea, it's better to put her in a deserted place, maybe it's a whim of the uncle, maybe I forgot it later, if the uncle really can't remember her, it's not too late to send it out." The old lady has worked hard for the past few days, and when the old lady is gone, it is useless for the uncle to think about it. ”

Zhao Yuechan said: "Then what does the uncle want to ask?" ”

Yingshuang said: "Prevaricate first, you can't prevaricate, isn't this girl still in the house." ”

Zhao Yuechan thought about it, nodded slightly, and said to Yang Hongying: "Xianglan stays, and you take the rest." ”

Yang Hongying said in her heart: "The eldest grandmother left the most top-notch girl with one mouth, I don't know what will happen to this little girl in the future." She glanced at Xianglan worriedly, and didn't dare to argue, so she hurriedly took someone away, and Juanzi looked back at Xianglan frequently, as if she was very reluctant.

Zhao Yuechan said to Yingshuang: "You brought people to Luo Xuewu, it happened that a few days ago, my cousin asked me for someone, saying that every girl under her hand is called, you go and tell her that this girl belongs to her." ”

Yingshuang got the order to lead people out, Xianglan frowned and thought, "Who is the cousin?" Why haven't you heard of it before? ”

"The cousin is the granddaughter of the old lady's second sister, her elders went early, and her brother and sister-in-law's family is weak, so she came to us." Yingshuang glanced at Xianglan, "You are carefully served, my cousin was engaged when she was young, and now she has lived in our house for a year and a half, and she will get married as soon as the filial piety period expires, and when the time comes, the marriage will be carried out from our Lin family, and her face will be bright." ”

Xianglan snorted secretly: "It's just a girl, a mouthful of 'we', 'our Lin family', it's really laughing to death." With no expression on his face, he still walked forward with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.

Yingshuang took the two of them for a long time, and saw a delicate and small house built near the water in front of them, one bright and two dark, one color of water mill group walls, black tube tiles, without any vermilion powder decoration. There was a tall woman in her fifties who was sitting at the gate washing clothes, and when she saw Yingshuang, she stood up and shouted into the house: "Miss Huan, Yingshuang is coming!" After speaking, he leaned against the door frame, and looked at Xianglan with a pair of big eyes. (Ask for collections, ask for messages, ask for tickets ^_^)