Chapter 63~64 Back Mountain
"Mrs. Tang didn't deceive me." The eldest princess took Du Ruyin's hand affectionately, "Your aunt praised you when she saw you, saying that you were handsome and talented. Now it seems that he is not a beautiful person? β
Du Ruyin Xiafei cheeks, fell and said generously: "The eldest princess is really praised." β
"Where there is a false praise."
"But why didn't the prime minister's wife come today?"
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Everyone in the noble ladies is accustomed to seeing the wind and change the rudder, the eldest princess is full of praise for her, and everyone sees the direction clearly, so they all revolve around Du Ruyin and Tang Chengxiang's family. Some people even looked at Du Ruyin with ambiguous eyes, because she and Tang Fengyi stood together and were really a good match.
When the women spoke, the girls were no longer idle.
When Fu Ying listened to the gossip with great interest, a girl wearing a pale pink group collar makeup and a delicate appearance stood up with a group fan in her hand, curtsied, and said, "The eldest princess chatted with the ladies, and our little sister went to the side to talk." β
"You can't be idle." Mrs. Yongxingbo lovingly scolded her daughter.
The eldest princess: "Miss Zhu has a lively temperament, and she is also restrained when she sits with us, although there are not many girls who come today, you can get to know each other, there is a corridor near the lake, why don't you go there to talk to the girl's house?" β
Zhu Wanyue, the daughter of Yongxing Uncle, smiled and saluted: "Thank you, eldest princess." He came close and took Fu Ying's hand affectionately, took Du Ruyin's arm, and walked to the corridor with the rest of the girls.
Fu Ying originally didn't want to go, she didn't know how to get along with these young ladies, and when she saw them, she inevitably remembered the difficult ones in the family, but since she was invited, the status of those who were present today was not low. One is not good, and the other is not bad.
A group of six girls took the maidservants to the corridor built by the lake, sat down in turn according to the beauties, and the maidservants stood aside with refreshments and bowed their heads.
Fu Ying observed left and right, and found that this place was not far from the pavilion where the women gathered, and he could faintly hear the laughter there. Looking to the other side, the lake is rippling with blue waves. On the other side of the arch bridge, a pergola was erected on the flat ground at the foot of the hill. The men sat or stood.
The lake is not wide, and although you can't hear the conversation of the male guests, you can probably see people. If you don't recognize it, you can only see the outline, and if you do, such as Xiao Cuo, just by seeing the outline, you can already make up the smile on his handsome face.
Fu Ying withdrew his gaze without a trace.
Zhu Wanyue said: "The last Mid-Autumn Festival. I heard that Miss Fu guessed the contents of the box and got a makeup knife given by the queen to cut gold and jade. I wonder if you brought it today? Our sisters are very curious about the style of the makeup knife. β
She spoke alone, and several girls agreed.
Fu Ying smiled and said: "I brought the 'Wulian', but I just handed it in when I first entered the mansion, but it is inconvenient to bring it here." β
Zhu Wanyue nodded in understanding when she heard this: "It's really inconvenient to carry a knife to the eldest princess's mansion." It's just a pity. The blade was said to be ominous, and I wondered how ominous it was. β
When the girls heard this, they didn't say it explicitly. But it can also make Fu Ying feel their ridicule and schadenfreude.
Fu Ying blinked his clear eyes, he had already passed the age of being very stupid and naΓ―ve. is in this position again, but now it seems that I have to admit a sentence: some people, even if they have not had any confrontation, will hate each other when they meet for the first time. That is, it is destined to be a magnetic field discord. About this Miss Zhu is like her, otherwise how could she be so picky.
As soon as Fu Ying's words were about to be dealt with, Du Ruyin said: "I heard that the emperor and the queen gave this makeup knife, originally to let the daughter of the military general who drank blood on the battlefield suppress this ominous blade. The emperor planned it like this, and this knife was ominous, and only Miss Fu could control it. Miss Fu has such ability, but you and my sister don't. β
In a few words, Fu Ying was relieved, and Du Ruyin smiled at Fu Ying friendly.
Fu Ying also smiled gratefully.
Du Ruyin was decent enough in front of the eldest princess, and it was not easy for the girls to distinguish it from her face to face, so they all stopped talking.
Zhu Wanyue pursed her lips secretly, very displeased.
Du Ruyin turned to sigh: "Although Miss Fu can control this knife, after all, it all depends on Wu Luohou to fight on the battlefield. β
"Exactly. Wu Liuhou in front of the Great Zhou Dynasty this time can be regarded as showing his face and adding luster to our Dongsheng Kingdom, but it is a pity that famous generals have rarely seen white heads in the world since ancient times. Zhu Wanyue agreed.
Several people were silent when they heard this.
Fu Gang died tragically, and all the women were compassionate.
Fu Ying felt a little disgusted in her heart, how could she think that this Du girl was pulling the topic in this direction. It's not that she was paranoid, it's really because after Fu Gang died in battle, there were too many people who came to ask her about the content of the suicide note, and she knew that there were no secrets in the suicide note, but the most pitiful thing was that she couldn't remember the content of the suicide note after reading it.
Someone is secretly watching her, maybe every move on weekdays may fall into the eyes of the monitor, and once she makes a mistake, she is likely to lose her life. In his previous life, he was poisoned by stealing crispy chicken, but he finally gained a reputation for being loyal, and his death was considered a great glory. What about this life? Xu is at most a violent death on that day.
It's really going back the more I live.
Thinking of this, Fu Ying suddenly felt bad. Although there was no difference on his face, he was impatient in his heart, and he just wanted to go home quickly.
She lowered her eyes and was silent, and everyone thought of her sadness.
Du Ruyin comforted her, and when the girls were more familiar with what they said, Du Ruyin asked casually: "...... Miss Fu was really careless that day, how could she not be careless and fell and broke her head? Could it be that there is something on the suicide note left by Marquis Wu Luohou that distracts you? β
Sure enough, I asked this!
Fu Ying's heart suddenly became alert, and she looked at Du Ruyin suspiciously, "Why did Miss Du say this?" My father left a suicide note at a critical moment, what else can he do. "Deliberately not answering positively.
The more ambiguous the answer, the safer she is.
Du Ruyin said: "I think it's nothing more than some words that care about you, or maybe I left something for you?" β
Fu Ying smiled and said nothing, only shaking the fan embroidered with the little white cat, obviously not wanting to go on topic by topic.
Du Ruyin bit her lip.
She was cold-eyed, and she was unhappy because she couldn't ask what she wanted to know. It is because of the coldness of the face.
The extremely girls who are here today are Fu Ying and Du Ruyin. First of all, neither of them spoke, and there seemed to be a slight friction, and the rest of them didn't know what to say for a while, and the scene was a little cold.
Fortunately, Zhu Wanyue and Ji Girl both know each other, they are familiar with each other, and she has a lively temperament. Finally found the rest of the topic. Didn't let the scene continue to be cold.
Du Ruyin looked at Fu Ying coldly, and she was really angry in her heart.
Although she is the cousin of the Tang family, she has been pampered since she was a child. And because she was born excellent, and her aunt loved her, most of the people who talked to people were with her, and when would someone be so cold. Didn't answer the question?
Sure enough, what is rumored by the outside world may not be a rumor, this seventh girl of the Fu family is an extremely rude person.
In the end, the newly promoted Wuluo Marquis family's family are all nouveau riche. The background is naturally not as good as those who were originally rich.
When Du Ruyin was slandering, the topic of Zhu Wanyue and the others had already fallen on the other side of the lake, and the girls could see that the sons and brothers were all sitting under the pergola over there, and they could vaguely see the concubine Qingyanghou and another purple-shirted boy sitting side by side in the first place. And Tang Fengyi, the third son of the Prime Minister's Mansion, whom they all know, are all wronged and sit in the second place.
"Who the hell is that? Why did the master of the horse lead him in and give him a first seat......"
The girls exchanged their heads and ears, although they couldn't really see the wrong faces. Just now, when he entered the door with Qingyang Hou and Chang Yi, they also saw his countenance at a glance. In addition, Xiao Cuo said loudly that he was the "subordinate" of the Fu family. Curious, Fu Ying became the center of the topic again, and the girls asked about Xiao Cuo's origin.
Fu Ying doesn't know yet, so where can he sue them? She can't say that she only indirectly knew him because she liked to eat the materials made by Xiao Cuo's brother Archer.
When Fu Ying was both puzzled and depressed, in the pergola under the back mountain, the concubine Qingyang Marquis smiled and instructed someone to renew the tea for Xiao Cuo: "Xiao Gongzi doesn't have to be polite, if there is any inconsiderate hospitality today, please forgive me." β
"Master Pony is really too polite." Xiao Cuo's sitting posture is very elegant, the fingers holding the tea bowl are slender, and the nails are perfectly shaped.
Sitting in the second seat, Tang Fengyi squinted her eyes and secretly looked at Xiao Cuo.
And Chang Yi didn't even get a seat at this time, and because he had always been close to Tang Fengyi, when Tang Fengyi was a brother and the leader of the mess since he was a child, he stood next to Tang Fengyi's seat and complained in a low voice: "I don't know who it is, how can I be so big, my father gave him a side, and he really dared to sit in the first place with his father with his nose and face, and Brother Feng didn't go to sit in that position here." β
Tang Feng cranked the folding fan in his hand, with a gentle and warm smile on his feminine and handsome face, and said lightly: "It doesn't matter, isn't it the same where you sit." β
Chang Yi sighed: "In the end, Brother Feng is still magnanimous. But I don't think as well as you do. My father didn't have a good face for me, but now he is like an outsider, and I don't accept it. β
The two of them spoke very lowly, and because of the distance between them under the pergola, they were not afraid of being heard.
Xiao Cuo put down the tea bowl and looked at the other side of the lake, and the sight was a beautiful scenery.
The lake is rippling, the white stone arch bridge connects the two banks, there are several girls in the corridor built by the lake on the opposite bank, in a group of colorful skirts, Fu Ying, who is dressed in a plain white gauze skirt and holds a light blue shawl, is like a white rose blooming in the flowers, which can be seen at a glance.
Ma Qingyanghou smiled: "Does Xiao Gongzi think that there is a favorite candidate on the other side?" β
Everyone looked at Xiao Cuo. If this sentence is well understood, it can be regarded as the concern of the colt, and if you think about it crookedly, it can only be regarded as this mysterious boy staring at the girls on the other side and being discovered.
Those who waited to see the joke did not get what they wanted. Xiao Cuo just smiled and said: "It's just the scenery of the lake, the beautiful mountains, the beauty of the embellishment, I feel that the picture is beautiful, with the Xinyang Maojian that Qingyang Hou entertained today, such a beautiful scenery and tea, it is really a refreshing enjoyment, people say that the garden of the eldest princess's mansion is famous for being good, and it is better to see it than to hear it." β
Although the Marquis of Qingyang is now middle-aged, he is also a talent of Yunwen and Yunwu, otherwise he would not be the emperor's son-in-law, when he was young, he always liked to travel around to make friends, and he liked such a frank attitude of enjoying the beautiful scenery and drinking tea and chatting, so he chatted with Xiao Cuo.
Seeing that his own father smiled so politely at an outsider. Chang Yi didn't like it more and more, and turned his head to look at the other side. I saw that the "hawthorn" ran to the verandah with flowers, went straight to Fu Ying's side, and stood up with two front paws on Fu Ying's double happiness, wagging his tail affectionately.
Tang Fengyi saw that his eyes were burning on Fu Ying on the other side, so she lowered her voice and asked, "Fancy it?" β
"Nope. No. Chang Yi shook his head again and again, and said in a low voice: Who can I fancy to? Besides. It's not my turn to decide on my marriage. It's just that my father and my mother don't have this right, and they will have to wait for the emperor's meaning in the future. β
"That's right." Tang Fengyi is also not awkward with Chang Yi in this matter. Looking at the other side, the colorful girls in the dress surrounded the girl in a plain gauze dress, and sneered: "Find an opportunity to get her to the back mountain later." β
"What?" Chang Yi almost screamed. The voice said eagerly: "It's so decent, why do you want to get her to go to the back mountain?" β
"How. Don't you dare? Tang Fengyi squinted at him.
Chang Yi shook his head and said in a low voice: "This is not appropriate, since the incident happened two years ago in Houshan, my mother will not allow people to approach." He said that he was afraid that there would be dead people in it. Stained with bad luck. β
"I didn't think you would still learn to be obedient."
"yes."
"What is? You and I have known each other, and I asked you to help me invite Miss Fu to the back mountain, but you refused? Aren't you afraid I'll spread the word about it? β
Chang Yi's face suddenly turned red, "How long has it been since that incident?" You're still talking about it, and it's really not enough friends. β
Tang Fengyi sneered. The feminine face regained its usual gentleness in front of people: "It's just a joke, what are you doing so seriously." β
Chang Yi was really relieved to see him like this, and couldn't help asking, "What are you doing to find Miss Fu?" You say I fell in love with her, did you look down on her yourself? If it really is, it's best not to go to the back mountain, Ming Media is marrying well, you do three things at home, if you marry her and become Mu Enbo, it will also help you in your future career. β
Tang Fengyi scoffed.
"What would I care about that?"
When Chang Yi heard this, his face was not very good-looking.
Seeing that he was silent, Tang Fengyi's face was gloomy, and she said coldly: "I just said that you should coax her away, and it's up to you whether you do it or not." β
Chang Yi has always understood Tang Fengyi's behavior, he has no requirements, nor does he threaten, this is the most dangerous.
"That's it, I can't listen to you."
Chang Yi said, and he was a little stunned.
When he came back to his senses again, Tang Fengyi still abducted him with his arm.
Ma Qingyanghou's face was already pale with anger: "San Lang, what kind of body do you make in front of your guests to make a lost soul, do you hear it for your father!" β
The thunderous voice startled Chang Yi, and then his face turned red.
The horse is talented, both civil and military, and because of his own outstanding, he has high hopes for his three sons. But the boss is more than sincere and clever, the second only knows how to read dead books, and the third is the smartest, but he only knows how to mix with a group of fox friends and dog friends all day long, and he was once tired to do such a thing in the back mountain.
The reason why the back garden of the eldest princess's mansion is famous is because an arch bridge on the lake connects the two banks, this side of the shore is adjacent to the foot of the mountain, the garden platform after climbing to the top of the mountain is very beautiful, and the most strange thing is that there is a six-zhang wide mountain stream in this place, although the height is not high, but the water flow under the mountain stream is turbulent, and the mountain walls on both sides are almost cliffs, if you want to go back and forth on both sides, you must take the "rope basket." β
This is the most perfect display of the technique of machine bracketing in the Dongsheng Kingdom, and other places imitate it, but it can't do such an effect.
How many people envy the garden of their princess's mansion.
But because the son of this loser led people to take the "rope basket" to the other end of the cliff to imprison a two-family woman, and finally abused people to death, in order to calm down the matter, even the rope basket was sealed, and in the past two years, the banquet guests have rarely led people to the proud strange landscape to see.
Thinking about it like this, the colt felt that the whole person was not good. looked at the man who only knew that he was talking to Tang Fengyi, and it became more and more unpleasant. Pointing at him, he scolded: "Look at you, there is no trace of everyone's seven spirits in dealing with people, and you are afraid of villain behavior, you look at Xiao Gongzi, you are of the same age, how can you also be like your parents, and Xiao Gongzi will talk generously and be gentle and elegant." Are you not a system? I see that all the words I have taught you over the years have been in vain, and you are simply a dou who can't afford it! β
The horse is good at everything, but he wants his son to become a Chan too much, and he is less responsible for teaching his son a little less when he is angry.
In front of all the guests, Xiao Cuo was praised as a dragon and phoenix, but Chang Yi was said to be inferior to the underground sand and dust, and Chang Yi's face was red. glanced at Xiao Cuo fiercely.
Xiao Cuo touched his nose helplessly.
He's innocent too, okay? It's good to have a tea here and chat for no reason.
Xiao Cuo's demeanor fell in Chang Yi's eyes, as if someone had inserted a knife in his heart.
It's just that he has been scolded by his father all the year round, and this time he was compared with Xiao Cuo in front of so many people. He looked at Xiao Cuo's handsome face at this moment, and really wanted to kill him to relieve his hatred.
Chang Yi suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with what Tang Fengyi had asked him to do. Didn't he want to let the seven girls of the Fu family go to the back mountain cableway? Simply let him get this disturbing Xiao Gongzi too! Isn't he complacent, he can't wait to see his ugliness begging for mercy.
Seeing that the concubine still didn't speak, he lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, clearly taking his respectful teachings as a deaf ear. Flicked his sleeves angrily and scolded: "This is also the place where you can stay." Don't go back to school! β
Chang Yi flicked his sleeves and left.
Seeing his departing figure walk up to the arch bridge to the other side, the colt spoke, "It's really funny, it's okay if the dog is indeed my discipline." β
"Where. I think the third son is very smart, as long as the master of the horse is a good student, it will become a big tool in time. β
I know it's a scene. The horse still felt that the ironing was very good, so he chatted with Xiao Cuo and the rest of the male guests.
Fu Ying was bored leaning on the beauty couch. Listening to the girls gossiping, I suddenly saw Chang Yi standing there at the end of the corridor waving his hand.
Fu Ying blinked strangely and pointed to the tip of his nose.
Chang Yi nodded.
The girls' topic is in full swing, and if she is in the past now, it will inevitably cause people to misunderstand her relationship with Chang Yi. It was Fu Ying who only asked Zhenyu, who was following him, to listen to what was going on.
After a while, Zhenyu whispered a few words in Fu Ying's ear: "Chang Sangongzi said that the eldest princess told him to come and tell you for your life, and before leaving the eldest princess's mansion later, please go to the small garden in the back mountain by yourself." He also said that after two years, the rope baskets in the mountain were gone, and the poisonous garden at the other end of the mountain stream was deserted. The eldest princess is planning to renovate the garden, and it is also a sincere invitation to you. β
Fu Ying was surprised.
She used to be a cat in the eldest princess's house, so she naturally knew every scene here. A garden was indeed reclaimed on the opposite side of the mountain stream behind the mountain, but I don't know why, the rope basket has long been abandoned, and the garden has also been deserted.
Why did the eldest princess invite her to go today?
But when you think about it, it's not hard to understand. The eldest princess was already hearted enough, and she ordered such a thing to let her son come to see and tell sΓΉ, for fear that shouting loudly would make the rest of the ladies feel that the eldest princess was favoring one over the other.
However, her current situation, if she can be closer to the eldest princess's care, she may be easier to do in the future, and many obstacles will be reduced.
If she is invited, she will go, and whatever the garden is now deserted, it will be a piece of the eldest princess's heart.
Fu Ying talked to the girls for a while.
Because considering that the widow of Wu Luohou ate different food from ordinary people during the maintenance system, and was afraid of colliding with Wu Luohou, it was because the eldest princess did not hold a big feast in the mansion, but only ordered the servants to carry food boxes to send the vegetarian banquet up, and only ate on their own small tables in the pavilion and corridor.
Fu Ying moved a few bites and put it down.
She picks her mouth and loves to eat, but it doesn't mean that she eats a lot, first of all, she can't eat so much, and secondly, the chef in the eldest princess's mansion doesn't make as much material as Archer.
The men took their leave, left the garden, and went out to eat and drink.
When the women said goodbye, Fu Ying told SΓΉ Zhenyu to go and talk to the Song family, and he avoided people first, crossed the stone arch bridge and went to the other side.
Stepping on the bluestone brick-paved square to the foot of the mountain, lifting the skirt and slowly going up the steps, waiting for the eldest princess to arrive for a while, maybe there can be a small sedan chair to ride.
Who knows, she has already reached the top of the mountain, heard the sound of rushing water under the mountain stream, and saw the cliff about six or seven zhang wide, one high and one low, the ropes connected at both ends and the rope basket hanging in the middle, the eldest princess has not yet arrived.
After a while, I saw Chang Yi and Xiao Cuo climb to the top of the mountain together.
When the two parties met, Xiao Cuo was stunned: "The eldest princess also invited the girl to come?" β
"yes." Fu Ying became more and more sure that Xiao Cuo's identity was special, otherwise how could the eldest princess be willing to invite him here alone. (To be continued) R655