Cui Xi continued: "I'm not saying that our lives have improved because of the value of the things they give, in fact, the dowry given by our family is counted in the whole of Dachu. The lord prepared it according to the standard of 200,000 taels of silver. Although the things that the two girls gave us were all good things, they still couldn't compare with our own. After all, it's just a matter of adding makeup. But in this way, the people behind them can see it. ”

Yaozhen asked, "Who is behind them?" ”

Cui Xi said: "Behind the pearl girl is Liu Gongzi." ”

Saying this, Yaozhen understood and nodded.

Cui Xi said again: "Behind Miss Wen Hui is our prince." ”

Yaozhen smiled and said: "I don't agree with this, behind Wen Hui is Lord Chen's family, how can it be the prince?" ”

Cui Xi smiled and said: "The whole world knows that the prince is supported by Lord Chen, is this the prince behind Miss Wen Hui?" Could it be that you have forgotten what I just said, why was the princess grounded? ”

Saying this, Yaozhen couldn't help but stand up, frowned and thought for a while and said, "What you said is very true, in the future, we must pay attention and have a good relationship with Wen Hui." ”

Cui Dai on the side said: "Not only should I have a good relationship with Miss Wen Hui, but also have a good relationship with Miss Mingzhu." Auntie, you see, we entered the house on the same day as Aunt Li. It is said that Aunt Li's father is still a five-grade official, and our family is just a merchant, but if you look at the courtyard, our courtyard has three main rooms, three wing rooms, and a group room in the back. There are two small houses at the back of the house, which we use as warehouses. But Aunt Li, although it is also the main house with three rooms, but there are no group rooms and small houses, but there are side rooms and sauna rooms, but the size of the yard is different, more than half smaller than ours. This distribution yard is not the master of the prince. This is all the master of Liu Gongzi. I have already seen that in the prince's home, Liu Gongzi can be more than half, this Li Shuyu is a stupid person, if he offends Miss Mingzhu, he offends Liu Gongzi. ”

Yaozhen nodded and said, "You two are right, we will have to come and go with Mingzhu and Wen Hui in the future." Be respectful to them, you know? ”

The two maids hurriedly agreed.

While everyone was talking, Steward Rui came again. Yaozhen hurriedly invited in, and Steward Rui said with a smile: "I won't go in, my aunt should prepare early." The prince is coming over tonight. I have something else to do. I won't delay my aunt. ”

Wang Yaozhen was overjoyed when she heard this, and hurriedly asked Cui Xi to take a red envelope out, and Steward Rui accepted it with a smile. After Wang Yaozhen waited for Steward Rui to leave, she hurriedly dressed up. The current Wang Yaozhen is different from the nouveau riche Wen Hui saw for the first time before, a little girl with a head full of gold and silver jewelry, and now she has followed Wen Hui for so many years. and Qiaozhen, a good friend who runs a silver building at home, has long practiced a good kung fu of dressing up.

The clothes are all the latest styles of Cuijinlou, the style is fresh and elegant, looking ordinary, but revealing low-key luxury. There are not many jewelry, but the materials used in the jewelry are exquisite. For example, the ruby on the hosta is the size of a thumbnail and is as red as blood, and the pearls on the step shake are all the size of lotus seeds, round and shiny.

After cleaning up, a pretty, feminine and luxurious Jiangnan man appeared. Facing the mirror, this mirror is a makeup gift given to her by Wen Hui, a large dressing mirror, which can reflect the whole body of a person, and the light can be seen. This costs 1,000 taels of silver on the market, and you have to place an order in advance. Now Wang Yaozhen looked at herself in the mirror and was very satisfied, but she was not at ease, seeing that it was still early, she cleaned up the house. Wang Yaozhen still remembers that Wen Hui said that the four princes like elegant tones. Therefore, although it is the big day of the round house, Yaozhen only uses this pink tent and bedding, and the rest is still elegantly decorated, and not all of them are red.

When it was late in the evening, Liu Yan took Steward Rui to Yaozhen's house, and as soon as he entered the house, Liu Yan couldn't help nodding secretly. I thought that the girl from the Wang family must be a girl covered in copper smell, who knew that this house was so tasteful, elegant and fresh, and there were no things like gold and jade, many of them were porcelain, and most of them were pastel porcelain. The chair is not made of red and green, but is made of jade, which looks elegant and fresh, which is pleasant. Then Liu Yan saw Wang Yaozhen for the first time, only to see that she was shy and timid, soft and cute, completely different from the gorgeous and dignified and luxurious of the princess Chen Wenfeng, she was the delicate and delicate of a Jiangnan woman, like a red apricot with rain, trembling, delicate and lovely.

Liu Yan couldn't help laughing. Yaozhen had never seen someone she had admired for a long time so closely, and now that he was laughing again, Yaozhen couldn't help but be lost.

In Chen Wenfeng's main room, Wen Feng was leaning against the concubine, and her eldest maid Hongxing said, "Princess, the prince went to Aunt Wang's house today." ”

Wen Feng nodded and said, "Tomorrow, you go and send a gift to Aunt Wang early." Prepare a few pieces of jewelry for the concubines to give her. It means that I am congratulating her on the round house. ”

Hongxing said, "Why did you go earlier?" She hasn't given tea to the princess yet, let's go and give gifts first, can that be good? ”

Wen Feng smiled and said, "So I want you to go early, so that the prince can know that I am a virtuous person." ”

Hongxing suddenly realized.

In Li Shuyu's yard next to him, Xia He said hatefully: "What's going on?" Our aunt and Aunt Wang entered the house on the same day, according to their identity, our family is an innocent scholar, the most famous in Jiangnan Shilin, and our lord is a five-grade official. Our aunt is the daughter of a serious official eunuch, so she can't be higher than Aunt Wang's status. Aunt Wang's family is just a nouveau riche, when she was still in Ancheng before, the Wang family wanted to send her son to study in our family's academy, but our family still disliked them as merchants and refused to accept them, why would the prince go to Aunt Wang's yard first? ”

Li Shuyu was weeping. Xia Yu on the side hurriedly covered Xia He's mouth and said, "Why can't you control your mouth when you don't make people worry?" Do you think this is at home? Are you still the big girl next to the girl? We are now in the prince's patrol mansion, how did we first arrive, how many eyes are around? Also, what is our identity? We are my aunt's maids, don't you understand what that means? Haven't you ever eaten pork, haven't you seen a pig run? Don't you know how the lady of the family disciplines her aunt? ”

Xia He was busy talking, Li Shuyu cried even more, and Xia Yu wanted to persuade again: "Auntie, don't cry, if you want to say it, it's also to blame us for our slow hands and feet, if our yard is cleaned up first, the prince will definitely come to us first." We are girls from the official eunuch family, how can we be compared to Aunt Wang. We hurry up and clean up now, so that the prince can come a day earlier, and the days to come will be long, and now the first round house may not be favored in the future. ”

Hearing this, Shuyu stopped crying and said, "Then what are you waiting for, don't go to work quickly, Xia He, you will scream, you won't do anything serious, Xia Yu, you can go too, hurry up and clean up the yard." ”

After speaking, he turned around and went into the room to sit at the desk, vented the sorrow in his heart, and wrote poems. Leaving Xia He and Xia Yu to pack their things overnight.

The next day, Liu Yan got up and was about to go to the study, and Yaozhen was waiting for Liu Yan to get dressed with a shy face. The courtyard door suddenly rang, and after a while, the eldest maid Cui Xi said, "Lord, the princess sent someone." ”

Liu Yan couldn't help frowning and said, "What did she send someone for?" Forget it, come in, I'll ask. ”

After a while, Hongxing came in, Hongxing was slightly scared when she saw Liu Yan, that day, Liu Yan asked someone to take Yu Li away and cut off her tongue, Hongxing still remembered it vividly, and she was naturally scared when she saw Liu Yan at this moment.

Liu Yan asked, "Why did the princess ask you to come?" ”

Hongxing said: "Lord, the princess heard that Aunt Wang and the princess had a round house, and specially rewarded Aunt Wang with jewelry to congratulate her." ”

Liu Yan couldn't help but soften his face and said, "Bring it up, I'll take a look." ”

Hong Xing hurriedly took the plate from the little girl's hand, opened the big red bag on it, and revealed a pair of white jade bracelets and a pair of red gold bonsai hairpins.

Liu Yan nodded slightly and said, "The princess is thoughtful." Yaozhen, you can take it. ”

Wang Yaozhen hurriedly replied to thank the reward, and then said to Liu Yan: "The concubine is panicked, the princess, the princess has given me a gift, and I haven't given tea to the princess yet?" ”

Liu Yan thought about it, so he said: "Well, Hongxing, you go and talk to the princess, just say that I have exempted her from grounding, let her prepare for a while, Aunt Wang is going to serve tea, I won't go, I have to go to the front study." ”

Hongxing was ecstatic in her heart, and quickly strained herself and said, "Thank you, Lord Wang." ”

Liu Yan ignored it and walked straight away.

Hongxing also hurriedly followed. When they were all gone, Cui Xi pouted and said, "Auntie, look, this princess will solve her current predicament with just these two things." ”

Wang Yaozhen looked at the four pieces of jewelry and sneered: "These things are also taken?" Take it, don't let people grab the handle and say I'm not satisfied with the princess's things. Let's clean up, and later, I'll take this bonsai hairpin, and the pair of bracelets with me, so that I will bring a gift for the princess, and go to the princess together, and I should also go to the tea. ”

Cui Xi hurriedly agreed, and was about to turn around to get something, when she suddenly remembered something and asked, "Auntie, we prepared a gift for the princess at home before, and now we still take it like this, is it appropriate?" ”

Wang Yaozhen was stunned for a moment and said: "The princess is still the daughter of the Chen family in the capital, only give me this little thing, if I give it well, won't it fall into the face of the princess?" Bring me the list, we're going to change a few things, it's not good if it's too expensive, don't look like I'm deliberately showing off. ”

Cui Xi hurriedly agreed.