Chapter 137: Luomei Villa
The county lord of Changping is the youngest daughter of the Nine Emperor Uncles, who is twenty years old and has not yet left the cabinet. Although the emperor rewarded the princess's mansion, she still lived in her parents' house.
The Nine Emperor Uncles had three daughters and no sons, perhaps because of this, the Nine Emperor Uncles did not participate in the battle for succession, and after the new emperor ascended the throne, he preserved his glory and wealth.
Not only that, but he also took the initiative to marry his eldest daughter and second daughter to neighboring countries and relatives, leaving only the third daughter to support the elderly, and the emperor specially named him the lord of Changping County, and let her recruit her own son-in-law.
However, this Changping county lord has a very high vision, and he rejected batch after batch of young talents, and dragged it out again and again, and then dragged it into an old girl, and now no one has come to the door to propose marriage.
It is rumored in the palace that the lord of Changping has a strange temper, sometimes he talks well, and suddenly he will scold people hysterically, and the queen mother and the queen mother gradually do not like her to enter the palace, and on New Year's Day, Xia Qingyun and Mrs. Zhenguo entered the palace to meet them, and they did not see the lord of Changping.
Xia Qingyun felt that the situation of the county lord of Changping was very similar to suffering from hysterical psychosis, which is more common in adolescent women, and is manifested as short-term behavioral disorders, crying and laughing, etc., the onset and recovery are very sudden, and the patient does not remember what he did at the time of the onset. There are no sequelae after recovery, but it is easy to recur.
Mrs. Zhenguo specially instructed Xia Qingyun that the invitation of the county lord of Changping must go. Because once, the person who invited her didn't go, so she had a hysterical seizure, ran to the door of the house and jumped to scold, and the Nine Emperor Uncle personally came to apologize.
For the Chinese New Year, no one wants to recruit a female madman at the door. Fortunately, when the county lord of Changping was not sick, he was gentle and elegant. Speak decently, but you don't have to be afraid of her, and it doesn't hurt to go to the scene.
The post stated that it was a tea party, and Xia Qingyun picked out a few small tubes of excellent tea leaves, a set of exquisite tea sets and tea utensils, and took Xue'er to the meeting.
The location of the tea party is not in the mansion of the Nine Emperor Uncles, but in the annex located at the foot of the West Mountain, which has a nice name, Luomei Villa.
The carriage passed through the city, and it was the end of the year. The streets and alleys of the capital are full of festive atmosphere. Red lanterns were hung up early under the eaves of many people's houses, and children chased and played on street corners, and some even set off sporadic firecrackers.
Xia Qingyun lifted the curtain and looked at it for a while. Turning his head to Xue'er, he said, "I have to go to the river when I have time a few years ago." Take Qinglian and them. Let's have a reunion year too. ”
remembered that during the Chinese New Year last year, my sister-in-law asked her to inquire about the whereabouts of the second and third uncles, and she decided to wait for Si Hong Bowen to return to Beijing to ask. Can they be released back to their hometowns? Dongchuan Town is now their own fiefdom, even if they are let back, it is expected that they will not dare to produce any more moths. The old lady is old, and she may not be able to let her die without seeing her when she will drive the crane west.
I thought of the emperor who went to sea and did not return to the south, and Zhengbo sent a letter last time, saying that he would be back soon, and more than two months have passed, and there is no one in sight, so something will happen.
Seeing that she hadn't spoken for a long time, Xue'er asked with a smile, "Why is Sister Qingyun so distracted?" The county lord of Changping is really good at picking a place, and he goes to the mountains in winter to hold a tea party. ”
Xia Qingyun smiled and said with some concern: "The county lord of Changping has a strange temper, you take care of your mouth, don't say too much, it annoys her." ”
It is said that it is more appropriate to have a gentle temperament and Qingmei by her side, but for some reason, Xia Qingyun always feels unsteady in her heart, and feels that it is better to bring Xue'er, who is incarnated as a divine beast, to rest assured.
After walking for more than an hour, the carriage came to the foot of the western mountain, where the temperature was much lower than in the city, the snow had not melted in the previous sun, and the fields were covered in snow, and a path led to the manor at the foot of the mountain.
There is a big stone standing at the door of the manor, and the stone is horizontally engraved with four big characters of Luomei Villa, and the pen is strong, I don't know who inscribed it.
The guards at the gate recognized it as the carriage of the Zhenguo Mansion and waved it away. Luomei Villa really lives up to its name, it is a large plum forest in the eye, and the trees are full of red and pink flowers, but in terms of its variety, it is only a common palace powder.
Passing through Merlin, a carriage had been parked in front of the house, and it seemed that there were still a lot of people attending the tea party, and I don't know if these people were sincere about going to the meeting, or if they were like themselves, they were afraid of the notoriety of the county lord of Changping, so they participated in it.
Xue'er helped Xia Qingyun get out of the car, followed the guide and walked inside, through the main courtyard, and went straight to the back garden.
Xia Qingyun secretly said in his heart, could it be that the poetry meeting should be held in the open air? After passing through the hall, she suddenly realized that nine pavilions had been built in the back garden, and the pavilions were very spacious, and there were verandahs connecting them with each other, even if it was windy and snowy, it would not delay the flowers.
Tables and chairs had already been set up in the pavilion, and many guests had come, mostly women, men and women sat separately, each with similar smiles on their faces, but their conversations were not enthusiastic. Depending on the situation, most of them came out of desperation.
The servants led them to the largest pavilion in the center, and a round table in the middle of the pavilion was large enough to seat a dozen people, on which were all kinds of dried fruits, peanuts and melon seeds.
Xia Qingyun showed a wry smile, where is this like a tea party, the drinking party is almost the same.
What surprised her even more was that there were not only the third princess, the fourth princess, and the eldest princess here, but also the seventh prince who rarely showed up!
When the rest of the people in the pavilion saw Xia Qingyun coming, they whispered one after another, but no one dared to come over to say hello.
When the county lord of Anping saw her, he waved his little hand happily, and was thrown over by the eldest princess with a look, and pursed her small mouth and bowed her head silently.
"Yo, I heard that you suffered from the wind and cold, and even pushed down the invitation of the prime minister's concubine, but you came all the way here, are you sick or not?" The third princess looked at her maliciously and asked with a grin.
"After taking the medicine, I'm already well, Princess Lao is worried." Xia Qingyun unhurriedly lied, saluted the people present, and sat down next to the fourth princess, with Xue'er standing behind her.
The Seven Princes and the Concubines sat next to each other, and when Xia Qingyun entered the palace for the first time to treat the emperor, he once hid in the dark of the palace and saw the Seven Princes, but the Seven Princes saw her for the first time and cast a curious gaze.
Xia Qingyun smiled at him slightly, nodded and replied, and the Seventh Prince also returned with a friendly smile, and said across the big table: "I have heard the name of the county lord for a long time, and when I saw it today, I really looked outstanding." ”
Before Xia Qingyun could answer, he heard the third princess sneering on the side, "Just one glance, at most, you will recognize a skin, how do you know that 'talent' is also outstanding?" ”
The Seventh Prince's face turned red, and he snorted: "The imperial sister's instructions are right, I am lying." ”
The dignified prince, even if he is not good, his position is higher than that of the princess, but the seventh prince is submissive to the third princess, which makes Xia Qingyun a little surprised.
Thinking about it again, the Seventh Prince has been raised in the palace since he was born, and he has never been valued by the emperor, so it is no wonder that even a princess can bully him.
"People invite you to come to enjoy the plum blossoms and drink tea, and they don't invite you to come and sneer, so let's all stop a little." The eldest princess spoke with a straight face, and as soon as the words fell, a delicate voice came from behind her, "The sisters have arrived, and they all blame this little thing for running around, and I have been looking for it for a long time, and I am late." (To be continued......)