Chapter 10: A Dream of Nanke
87_87437 The Chunyin Hall was built with the water, in order to be able to better enjoy the scenery of this Taiye Lake. The whole hall is two stories high, in the shape of a ring, and a tall stage is repaired in the center. No matter where you are in the southeast, north, west and northwest of the main hall, you can enjoy the wonderful performances on the stage.
The hall, which has been lonely for a long time, is now full of guests, noisy and prosperous. Several neat rows of pineapple wood carved lacquer tables, and next to each carved lacquer table, there are several embroidered piers covered with thick hibiscus mats. There are all kinds of satin boxes on those carved lacquer tables, there are plum blossom type, begonia type, lotus leaf type, there are sunflower style inside there are all kinds of exquisite food, each box side also has a complete set of blue and white peach-shaped self-pouring, blue and white one-legged bottles, and black silver inlaid treasure chopsticks.
Countless palace maids dressed in palace costumes held black lacquer trays and shuttled back and forth in the main hall, serving fresh and hot refreshments to the guests. The stage in the hall has already started the play, and a group of musicians, painted with strong colors, dressed in costumes, babbling on the stage and singing and writing are all good.
However, at this time, the east and west compartments and the north and south compartments of the main hall were separated by a piece of red felt, and the male guests sitting on one side were female guests on the other. Of course, those ladies are naturally not afraid, and what separates them is the gaze of the young ladies and young masters. But now the women's side of the east and west compartments is basically full. But there were not many figures on the male side of the north and south compartments.
It's just the high-pitched shouting from the window that you know where these men are. Before they came, they were already grinding their fists and waiting for a good fight, and now they finally got together, and they didn't gather good people and horses to catch each other and play ice hockey.
The ladies and ladies in the audience were some of them beating the beat and carefully enjoying "A Dream of Nanke" on the stage. Some of the friends sat together in twos and threes and laughed and chatted in a low voice, and some bold ladies gathered around the window, quietly admiring the ice hockey game that had not been around for a long time. They whispered and smiled, all secretly cheering for their brothers.
Jiang Yanmei watched Jiang Chuqing's lively figure shuttling through the crowd, looking at this window for a while, and squeezing at that window for a while, she couldn't help pouting secretly, and said to Mrs. Jiang: "I said sister-in-law, you are really good, such a big occasion, so many fateful ladies, why do you want to bring Sister Qing'er?" β
Mrs. Jiang rubbed the Jinpa in her hand and said helplessly: "It's not your good brother who said that seeing Sister Qing'er getting older, it's time to say kiss." So I took her out to meet the ladies of the families, so that people could look at each other. β
Jiang Yanmei was stunned at first, and said: "I remember that the year before last, you didn't help the eldest son of Wang Hanlin's family, but that Aunt Wang disliked that people were not rich enough and didn't want to live or die, so you left it alone." Why is this going to ask you to mediate again? β
Madame Jiang sighed and said, "It's not like there's no way!" She has been tossing and turning in the past two years, but after all, she can't be high or low. No, it delayed Sister Qing'er. β
Jiang Yanmei covered her mouth and laughed, and when she had laughed enough, she whispered to Mrs. Jiang: "My soft-eared eldest brother is afraid that he will be dizzy by Aunt Wang!" Delusional to find a son-in-law for her baby daughter here? Who is not a human spirit here! Will you help your nephew fall in love with a concubine? β
"That's what I said!" Madame Jiang sighed and said softly: "The eldest princess invites all the housewives of Shixun, and the ones who can interest them and have the idea of marriage are the daughters of each family. If there really is someone who accidentally takes a fancy to this girl and asks her identity, how do you want me to answer? As a result, guess what our family officials say? β
"How?" Jiang Yanmei took a spoonful of the sweet and sour cherry meat in front of her and tasted it carefully, and then asked with interest.
Mrs. Jiang said with a wry smile: "He said that although Sister Qing is a concubine, her mother is a noble concubine and a young lady from an official eunuch family, and her identity is not too bad. No matter how bad it is, she is still the aunt of the second prince! If the husband's family is too bad in the future, I am afraid that the second prince will also be disgraced. β
Jiang Yanmei sneered, looked at Jiang Ruxue, who was sitting quietly on the side, and had been silent with her eyebrows lowered, and said, "This is still the little aunt who has not yet said kiss, what is the hurry of the aunt who has not yet reached the end of the year!" β
Jiang Ruxue originally just sat quietly, listening to Jiang Yanmei chatting with her mother, but she didn't expect the topic to suddenly turn to herself, she couldn't help blushing, and said coquettishly: "Auntie, you make fun of Xue'er again." After all, her shy face burned like fire, and she couldn't sit still any longer, so she stood up and walked to the little sister she had befriended in Su Ri.
Jiang Yanmei looked at her graceful back, her heart couldn't help but move, and she whispered to Mrs. Jiang: "I said sister-in-law, have you thought about what I told you last time?" Now that the children are older, they can't be dragged like this! Besides, our family Chengzhong grew up with you watching, and you know the roots. That character, appearance is not my boast, and it can be regarded as the leader in this Chang'an City. He and Sister Xue are cousins of this sister-in-law, and they have an extra layer of kinship compared to others, aren't they just a match made in heaven? β
Seeing that her topic ran to Jiang Ruxue's lifelong event, Mrs. Jiang couldn't help but say: "I naturally know that Chengzhong is a good child, hardworking and filial. But your brother had already spoken, saying that he had his own ideas about Sister Xue'er's lifelong events, and asked me not to interfere. β
Jiang Yanmei couldn't help but smile coldly when she heard this, and said bitterly: "You don't need to hide it, I don't know my brother's careful thoughts." Didn't you just see a lady concubine in the family, so you still want a prince and princess in the house!
But he didn't want to think about it, maybe the good things of the royal family would make him all the Jiang Mansion occupy? I also heard that the Empress Dowager wanted Chen Ge's eldest granddaughter Chen Yanran to be Prince Rui's princess, and the emperor wanted Liu Yuchun, the daughter of Mrs. Liu's family, to be Prince Rui's princess, but Prince Rui categorically refused.
Now that he is a second-class Ministry of Works, does he still want to be stronger than these heroes who assisted the current emperor to ascend the throne? Speaking of which, isn't it that I dislike that my master is just a third-grade military attachΓ©, so he doesn't look down on our family Chengzhong. If my lord is a righteous prince of Zhenguo, and my family is loyal to the prince, it is estimated that my good brother will rush to stammer. β
This is really ugly enough to say, Jiang Chuqing's face turned red with a brush. She opened her mouth, but found that she couldn't argue at all, because Jiang Yanmei didn't say a word wrong, she really deserved to be a brother and sister of a mother's compatriots, and one sentence broke Jiang Kangping's thoughts.
I remember that I had taken a fancy to Jiang Ruxue before, and wanted to match the news between her and Guo Chengzhong to tell Jiang Kangping. Jiang Kangping sneered and said: "When her lord really becomes the prince of Zhenguo, and Guo Chengzhong of her family really becomes the prince of Zhenguo, come and mention this matter to me again!" β
At that time, Jiang Chuqing said hesitantly: "After all, it was my aunt-grandma who finally pulled down her face and asked me in person." If I answered her like this, wouldn't I have offended all my relatives? There is another sentence that she didn't dare to say, that is, if she really replied to Jiang Yanmei like this, it is estimated that the first person who can't get along with herself will be her mother-in-law, Mrs. Jiang, who has always regarded women as her life.
Seeing that his wife was still hesitant and unenlightened, Jiang Kangping couldn't help but stomp his feet and said angrily: "Who told you to tell her what I said, and I'm not afraid of that spitting star on your face?" You just said that I have already considered Sister Xue'er's life, and you, as a mother, can't be the master. With that, he brushed his sleeves and walked away.
Mrs. Jiang later knocked on the side for a long time, and then vaguely knew that her master was interested in Sister Xue'er, and it was actually the man with an outstanding demeanor and a gentle jade. That is the object that all the nobles of Chang'an City want to marry, in comparison, Guo Chengzhong is not worth mentioning at all. The scale in Mrs. Jiang's heart immediately tilted to the side.
Jiang Yanmei saw that Mrs. Jiang didn't refute it out loud, and knew that she had guessed the best of ten. She couldn't help but smile coldly and said, "Sister Xue has a good future, and I, as an aunt, will naturally not stop her from doing good things." I only hope that she can climb on that high branch for a long time. β
After speaking, she actually no longer paid attention to Mrs. Jiang, but watched the play attentively. She also clapped her palms and hummed quietly along with the song: "A prosperity, a dream, a joy, an emptiness."