Chapter Forty-Three: Broken Hearts
The table has already been set up in the garden, and the ladies who looked at Cheng Yiyao's flower paintings were all amazed, and they began to start working one by one, and Cheng Yiyao also taught them carefully, and there was nothing to hide, and the relationship with several young ladies was also a lot closer.
However, today's ladies and gentlemen's families except for Peng Guogong's family only Li's maiden family did not come, and it is easy to understand that Peng Guogong's mansion did not come, after all, Peng's family is a young widow who does not come out to socialize much, and if she comes too much, it can only cause trouble for her, and it is enough to know that she is doing well.
However, the Li Mansion is a little strange, today I see that the Li family has been sitting on the side and silent, it is not that the previous matter has not been resolved, but Cheng Yiyao is not good to ask, after all, these are people's private affairs.
But she didn't ask if someone would tell her: "Cousin, do you know why no one from the Li Mansion came today?" At this time, it was the little niece of the Qin family's mother's family who came to Cheng Yiyao to speak, named Qin Shuyuan, who was one year older than Cheng Yiyao.
When the child knows it, he wants to share it with others, or he wants people to know that she knows a lot and is admired, Cheng Yiyao is so powerful than her little flower painting, I don't know if it is "reciprocating the peach" at this time, Cheng Yiyao felt funny, but she still shook her head and looked at her curiously, but in fact, she was also curious.
"After the last incident, I thought that there was nothing to do, and the Huai'an Mansion would naturally solve it, but I didn't think that the second miss of the Li family who was favored by others had no reaction, but the third miss of the Li family found someone to send a letter to the son of the world privately, but I didn't want this son to be an idiot, so I thought it was sent by the second lady." Qin Shuyuan was very happy to have such an audience, and she didn't buy Guan Zi and poured it out like beans.
At this time, Ou Xuezhen, the young lady of the Ou family next to her, listened to it and posted it with great interest: "My sister is wrong, what is the second miss of the Li family, but I heard that the prince has a crush on the third miss of the Li family, and he is in love with the third lady!" ”
"You are the old Huang Li, because of the matter of the prince, the second miss of the Li family may be disturbed, and then the third miss of the Li family went directly to the private meeting of the prince and was seen, and now the Li family claims to the outside world that it is not the second miss who has a relationship with the prince but the third miss." Qin Shuyuan asked Ou Xuezhen to come closer and whispered.
"Really! Does that Shizi also like Miss Three? Ou Shuyuan asked hurriedly.
Cheng Yiyao felt completely ignored, but it was good to be able to listen to gossip.
Qin Shuyuan looked like "you don't know, right": "Even if the prince is willing, the Huai'an palace will not be willing, although it is the prince who picked the head first, but it is their Li family's young lady who sent the letter, how can the palace agree!" ”
"What happened then?"
"The official position of the eldest master of the Li family has been lost, what do you say, his Li family still wants to calculate the palace, isn't this an egg touching a stone! can't help but be so, the marriage of the second lady of the Li family is also yellow, saying that she is going to be carried into the palace as a concubine. Qin Shuyuan lowered her voice and said.
"This, this...... That's the daughter of the Li family! ”
Looking at Ou Xuezhen's face in disbelief, Cheng Yiyao only felt in a trance, thinking that the concubines of the Chengguo Mansion in her previous life could be made the concubine of the prince, and the second miss of the Li family did not feel unusual, this Li family was indeed a little greedy, neither wanted to give up the marriage of the second lady, but also did not want to give up the opportunity to go to the Huai'an Palace, but in the end, the bamboo basket was empty.
"Pity the second miss of the Li family, it's all the fault of the third miss!" Ou Xuezhen has a bit of a common hatred.
"What can I do if it's her fault, it's not the second miss of the Li family who suffers in the end, and this second miss is really unlucky!" Qin Shuyuan also said indignantly.
Cheng Yiyao didn't think that the third miss of the Li family could get a good job, her reputation had already been checked, and there was something about the second miss of the Li family, and she was afraid that it would be difficult for her to do it in the future, and the Li family didn't know what to do to her in the future, but Cheng Yiyao remembered that it was the sixth miss of the Li family who started the incident at that time, so she didn't know if it was intentional or unintentional, if she had a heart, it would be really terrible at such a young age.
This Ou Xuezhen and Qin Shuyuan are like-minded, these two little girls don't look at their age, there is really a lot of gossip, and they suddenly lowered their voices as they spoke, Cheng Yiyao listened carefully and was actually talking about Princess Deshan, no wonder her voice was lowered, if she wasn't sitting on the side, she really couldn't hear it.
"I heard that the marriage between Princess Deshan and the second young master of Zheng Guogong's Mansion will not be successful!" Ou Xuezhen whispered.
"Oh? How could it not be, didn't the Queen Mother make a decree? Qin Shuyuan said curiously.
"You don't know this, what Princess Deshan likes is ......" Ou Xuezhen glanced up at Cheng Yiyao and saw that she didn't look this way, but was just concentrating on picking flowers and continued, "What I like is the fifth master of the Chengguo Mansion, the princess is unwilling to hand it over to the second young master of the Zheng Guo family, what can the queen mother do with her daughter, I'm afraid it won't work in the end!" ”
Cheng Yiyao listened to the gossip of the two little girls quietly, if Princess Deshan's marriage really can't be successful, will it really fall on Cheng Jinghao's head, but Cheng Jinghao will not marry the princess in the end as long as he wins Gongsheng Dao in the next year.
After the initial excitement, these little girls slowly lost their nature, some chatted on the side, some simply went to play in the garden, and the rest were three, three, two
When it was almost noon, a maid came to invite: "Ladies and ladies, please go to the flower hall for dinner!" ”
"It's lunchtime, I'm not hungry at all, I don't feel it!" Cui Zhizhen said with a smile.
"You've eaten a plate of dim sum here, it's strange that you're hungry!" Several of the little girls laughed.
Cui Zhilan stepped forward and said, "Okay, let's all go over, this snack is not hungry, we are hungry!" ”
After going to the side hall to wash up, everyone entered the flower hall, it was already the first day, they all said that they were sleepy in spring and autumn and lacklustre, and everyone was a little sleepy after eating and chatting for a while, and the ladies of Cheng Yiyao's various mansions went to the guest room to rest.
"Miss Cousin, the slave will take you to your residence." A little maid stepped forward and saluted.
Cheng Yiyao remembered that this was one of the maids who cleaned her grandmother's yard, and asked, "Trouble sister, what do you call your sister?" ”
"Miss Cousin is gracious! Slave Angelica! The little maid said and bowed again, "This is the duty of the slave maid, the old lady specially ordered, you have lived in the broken Lanxuan where your aunt and grandmother have not left the pavilion these days, if you have any needs, just mention it to the slave maid, the slave and maid are responsible for serving Miss Table these days!" ”
"Mother's house is still there!" Cheng Yiyao asked with some difficulty.
The little maid sighed lightly: "When my aunt and grandmother just came out of the pavilion, this house was kept for her to come back to live, and then my aunt and grandmother were gone, so the old lady ordered someone to keep the yard all the time!" ”
The little maid didn't say that the old lady's original words were "Fu'er, your husband will remarry after the string, the husband's family has no yard for you, and there is no place to live when you come back, my mother will keep it for you, and I will keep it for you!" At that time, after saying that, she fainted, and the old lady, who had always been tough, was not in good shape after several traumas.
"It's hard for my grandmother!" Cheng Yiyao sighed lightly.
Angelica said with a smile: "The Hou Mansion is very grateful to Miss Cousin, the old lady has been depressed all these years, and her body is not as good as before, since Miss Cousin came, she has been much happier, and she no longer goes out of the yard alone!" ”
A plum forest came over from the room, this is the plum forest where I listened to the play before, and further south is the broken Lanxuan where the Cui family lived before leaving the pavilion.
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