Chapter 106: Tea Ceremony

The room was suddenly quiet again.

Until Lu Qingrong thought that Jiang Xuan had fallen asleep, there was suddenly a voice outside.

"Why didn't you just let the maid come to watch the night?" The flat voice seems to be mixed with a bit of playfulness.

Although he couldn't see others, Lu Qingrong could imagine that he must have that kind of smile on his face at this moment.

"I don't have that habit." She replied softly.

The man on the other side of the screen stopped saying anything.

Lu Qingrong couldn't help but ask his own question: "Did you drink a lot of wine just now?" How can you faint all of a sudden? Are you completely okay now? ”

There was a chuckle on the other side of the screen, and then Jiang Xuan's voice sounded: "I know that I am not in good health, and no one has poured me wine." Fainting is a common thing, it's not a big deal, you don't have to worry, and the awakening soup is very effective, if I ...... again in the future You don't need to panic, just order someone to boil medicine for me. ”

Lu Qingrong responded, but the doubts in his heart did not diminish in the slightest.

Is that awakening soup effective?

She clearly remembered that he had woken up before he went to drink the medicine himself......

At this moment, a faint light suddenly came through the side of the screen.

"I used to light the lights all night, but I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to sleep." Jiang Xuan explained over there.

"Is this screen new here?" Lu Qingrong looked at the six screens that separated the inside and outside, and somehow asked.

"It's been a while." Jiang Xuan paused slightly, "In the past, there was a door in the middle, but then I asked people to remove it and replace this screen." ”

Lu Qingrong felt that this behavior was really strange.

There are also many rooms in the Lu Mansion that are divided into two rooms, inside and outside, and I don't see any of them separated by screens.

Why do you have to tear down a good door? Could it be......

"It has nothing to do with you, it's been demolished for several years." Jiang Xuan seemed to guess what she was thinking.

Lu Qingrong was pierced by someone, and he was at a loss, and asked something else casually: "Do I want to go to Jingchun Hall tomorrow to serve tea?" ”

"Why do you ask?" Jiang Xuan didn't think she was knowingly asking, she just thought that maybe no one had told her this before.

"I also know that according to the rules, I have to go to the tea ceremony." Lu Qingrong explained: "It's just that when you came to Lu Mansion, Mother Cao didn't specifically instruct you, don't go to Jingchun Hall if you have nothing to do......

Jiang Xuan thought of this stubble, and was also a little helpless: "That means that in the future, tomorrow's tea will still be inevitable." ”

Today, Marquis Jingyuan went to Xitang, but Lu Qingrong kept his head covered and couldn't see anything.

"That Marquis Jingyuan...... Your father...... Is my father's health better? Although he hadn't served tea yet, after all, Gao Tang had already worshipped, and it took Lu Qingrong a long time to change his words.

Jiang Xuan was almost amused by her lame change.

"Father looks good today." Jiang Xuan didn't intend to hide it, "Presumably you should have heard people mention that my father's body is secondary, mainly because of his heart disease." ”

He said this tactfully, but Lu Qingrong also understood.

Marquis Jingyuan's illness, Lu Yiduo had seen it at the beginning, and she had heard some of it from Yin Pingru, and Jiang Xuan's words at this time confirmed this statement.

"Mrs. Wu will also be in Jingchun Hall tomorrow, right?" Lu Qingrong then asked, she knew that Mrs. Wu lived in Qinyi Courtyard.

"Hmm." Jiang Xuan replied simply, but he also noticed in his heart that she addressed Mrs. Wu, and couldn't help but be slightly moved.

Lu Qingrong didn't notice his abnormality at all.

"Will there be anyone else?" She simply asked one at a time, so as not to be in a hurry tomorrow.

"No, the other relatives will have to wait until three days to recognize their relatives."

Lu Qingrong was about to ask who his relatives were, but Jiang Xuan had already continued: "Take your time, let's pass this tomorrow first." ”

After that, both of them did not speak again.

Just said a few words, Lu Qingrong was no longer as nervous as he was just now, looking at the slight fire from the small lamp next to the bed, and the faint light faintly passing through the screen, his heart also calmed down.

After all, I got up very early today, and I tossed all day, and as soon as I relaxed a little, I could no longer resist the sleepiness that came from the attack, and soon fell asleep.

A dreamless night.

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Qingrong was woken up by the green bamboo who came in to serve her to get up.

I didn't expect to sleep so deeply.

Lu Qingrong sat up from the bed and pointed to the screen at Lu Zhu first.

Green Bamboo smiled knowingly, and then said; "There is no one outside now, and when the slave maid came in just now, she didn't see the prince of the world."

Lu Qingrong got up with peace of mind, and while putting on his clothes, he asked, "Where did the prince go?" ”

"I heard that the maid in the prince's house said that he went to the study, and left a message, so that after you get up, you will go to the study to find him and go to Jingchun Hall together."

He had been thinking about the tea ceremony in his heart, so Lu Qingrong didn't notice that Lu Zhu had an unnatural look when he mentioned "the maid in the prince's house".

After hurriedly freshening up, Lu Qingrong changed into a pink stand-up collar shirt, put on a hibiscus-colored embroidered plum blossom collar jacket, wore a peach-colored horse-faced skirt, combed his hair into a Lingyun bun, and wore a butterfly-shaped beaded flower with gilt filigree and emerald.

Standing in front of the mirror and taking a look several times, he found that there was nothing wrong, so Lu Qingrong went to the study to find Jiang Xuan and went to Jingchun Hall together.

This is the first time Lu Qingrong has come to Jingchun Hall.

Entering the courtyard, she couldn't help but feel a depressing atmosphere, from the door through the east side of the hand-copying verandah on the way to the hall, the maids she saw were all walking with their heads down, all holding their breath, not at all lifeless.

Lu Qingrong thought in his heart, I am afraid that this is all because of the perennial recuperation of Marquis Jingyuan.

followed Jiang Xuan into the hall, and saw that a man and a woman were already sitting on the main seat, it was Marquis Jingyuan and Mrs. Wu.

Mother Lu stood behind Mrs. Wu, and two women of her age stood there together.

Seeing Marquis Jingyuan for the first time, Lu Qingrong inevitably looked at it twice.

I don't know if it's because the illness has not healed, or the navy blue Hangzhou silk robe is too wide, Jing Yuanhou's figure looks very thin, coupled with the white goat's beard, it makes him look thin and sluggish.

Looking at Mrs. Wu on the side, she wore a lake-colored embroidered begonia light gold piping placket today, a moon-white collared middle shirt, a green skirt, and a complete set of emerald jade heads on top of the high bun between her hair, and her complexion seemed to be a lot more rounded than two years ago.

Seeing them come in, Mrs. Wu's eyes kept looking back and forth on Jiang Xuan and Lu Qingrong.

"We're late." Jiang Xuan said first as soon as he entered the door.

"It's okay, we'll just sit down." Mrs. Wu said with a smile as she looked at Marquis Jingyuan next to her.

Marquis Jing Yuan only bowed his head slightly, but did not speak.

At this time, Mother Lu, who was standing aside, walked to them with a tray with teacups.

Lu Qingrong first followed Jiang Xuan's movements, knelt in front of Marquis Jingyuan with him, took the teacup from Lu's mother's tray, and followed Jiang Xuan to say goodbye: "Father, please use tea." ”

Marquis Jing Yuan took the teacup, took a sip and put it down: "Get up." Then he said to Jiang Xuan: "Since you have already married, you must be more cautious in your words and deeds in the future, and work hard, if he can be loyal to the court in the future, and not disgrace the prestige of my Jingyuan Marquis Mansion, it will be filial piety to us!" ”

Although he said it to Jiang Xuan, before the words fell, Lu Qingrong couldn't help but look up at Jingyuan Hou.

I saw that Marquis Jingyuan was sitting on the main seat, and he didn't see anything abnormal at the moment, but what he said just now was really too strict.

Just thinking about it, Jiang Xuan next to him had already nodded yes, and then stood up.

Lu Qingrong hurriedly stood up, and the two knelt down in front of Mrs. Wu again.

This time, she held the teacup and did not open her mouth immediately, but waited for Jiang Xuan to speak first.

When he heard Jiang Xuan call her "madam" when he saluted, Lu Qingrong turned his heart sideways and said, "Madame, please use tea." ”

Mrs. Wu was slightly stunned, but she quickly took the teacup with a relieved face and took a sip.

Jiang Xuan has always called her wife, but now that there is Lu Qingrong, it doesn't matter.

Especially this morning, she got the news that Jiang Xuan rested in the new house last night, it seems that she really didn't choose the wrong thing for him!

"Hurry up!" Mrs. Wu smiled with a smile in her eyes, "I can see you getting married, my heart is also a stone falling to the ground, you must be harmonious with husband and wife, and open up branches and leaves for the Jingyuan Marquis Mansion as soon as possible!" ”

Scattered?

Lu Qingrong, who was halfway through the day, heard this, and his body suddenly stiffened for a moment.

It seems that this Mrs. Wu doesn't remember what she promised Yin Pingru at all.

No wonder from the moment she entered the door, she kept staring at her with a smile, and looked at her straight hair, thinking that she was ......

Regarding Mrs. Wu's words, neither Lu Qingrong nor Jiang Xuan responded.

Mrs. Wu only regarded Lu Qingrong as shy.

In fact, last night they were an inner room and an outer room, Mrs. Wu naturally did not know, but she was very sure in her heart, after all, Jiang Xuan's willingness to stay in the new house was already a very abnormal move.

"This is my wish and that of your father." Mrs. Wu took out two red envelopes and handed them to the two of them.

Lu Qingrong hurriedly took it, she thought that Mrs. Wu would send some jewelry and other items, but she didn't expect to give a red envelope directly.

"You're tired enough in the past two days, so let's go back first." Mrs. Wu continued: "You don't have to come here to say hello these days, don't forget to recognize your relatives three days after getting married." ”

Lu Qingrong was pondering whether what she meant by "don't have to come" was Jingchun Hall or Qinyi Courtyard, and when she saw that Jiang Xuan next to her had turned around and walked out, she immediately followed.

On the way back to Yuyuan, Lu Qingrong secretly sighed to himself, the tea ceremony that he was still a little worried about before was so quick to decide.

Thinking of the scene in Jingchun Hall just now, Lu Qingrong suddenly remembered something again: "Are the two mothers next to Mother Lu also from Qinyi Courtyard?" ”

"That's Aunt Chen and Aunt Wei, who served their father in Jingchun Hall."

Jiang Xuan's answer was completely unexpected by Lu Qingrong.

The two aunts were dressed like Mother Lu, and they seemed to be older than Mrs. Wu.

Seeing Lu Qingrong's doubts, Jiang Xuan continued: "They are all my father's maids in the past, and it is said that my mother carried my aunt as soon as she entered the door. Mrs. Wu lives in Qinyi Courtyard all the year round, and most of her father's side are taken care of by two aunts. ”

Lu Qingrong knew that the "mother" in his mouth was Mrs. Jiang, and he suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart. RS