Chapter 106: The Villa
As the main family, the two Meng Zetian brothers took care of the front and back, and the two of them rode on horses at this time, standing next to the slowly pulling out of the convoy, watching the convoy pull out, watching the six roads with their ears, looking at all directions, and taking into account the overall situation.
The actions of the royal brothers, King Ruijun and Qi Xuanhui, naturally fell into his eyes.
He is a person who values affection and righteousness, and when he saw this, he felt that the two brothers of Ruijun were really quite right, "Who said that the heavenly family has no family affection?" Look at the relationship between these two brothers, it's not much worse than me and my fifth brother! ”
Meng Zelang rode a horse to accompany his eldest brother, and when he saw him smiling at King Ruijun, he couldn't help but stop talking.
He originally wanted to give his eldest brother a wake-up call, but when he thought of the Cui family's brothers and sisters, they had always been close to King Ruijun, and even brought their own three sisters to be close to their brothers.
Meng Zelang's eyes swirled around these people, but in the end he still kept silent, thinking that it was better to let it be
King Ruijun, who has already ridden forward, where can he know what the Meng family brothers are thinking?
He knew that he had no good breath in his heart, and when he arrived, he finally passed it.
You think, with the free and easy temper of King Ruijun, he is an outlier in the royal family, and when other princes get married, the candidates for the main concubine all look at the family background first and then look at the young lady herself.
But he is not such a person who puts interests first in everything, King Ruijun has seen too many honey-bellied swords in the palace, and he has a set of styles behind the scenes.
I feel that most of the husbands and wives in this royal family have the same interests, and it is okay to help each other, but it is almost impossible for the two to be happy.
He really doesn't want this kind of mutually beneficial marriage, and he is bent on choosing a desirable person to be his concubine.
Helpless, at the moment, this form is stronger than others, even if he vaguely has that idea in his heart, but for the sake of his family, for the sake of big things, and in order not to be taken advantage of by others, King Ruijun can only choose to compromise.
So his heart is quite suffocating, he can still pretend to be in front of outsiders, but in his own Ruijun Palace, there is no less evil fire, and there are not a few smashed things, especially the study and bedroom, which are simply as tragic as the wind has hit.
Even the subordinates of the county king's mansion were tortured by him, so I really wanted to have two eyes on my buttocks, and I must not do anything that made the master look unpleasant.
Fortunately, Qi Xuanhui was so unhappy in his heart that he wanted to make up for his ninth brother more, so he deliberately mentioned this matter in front of Concubine Jing, asked his mother to help, took leave in the palace, moved to the county king's mansion, and stayed with the angry Rui County King for some time.
Since that time, he has dragged King Ruijun to fight in the martial arts training ground every day, but it has made King Ruijun's depression vent a lot, and there is a channel to vent his anger, so that King Ruijun's resentment this time did not suffocate his body and bones.
In addition, this time to hunt in Fengyun Mountain, it is also a good pastime, and the prince of the county who vented his grievances, this is in good spirits and talks to the eldest son of the Meng family.
In the temperament of these two people, they both have a chivalrous demeanor, and they are both cheerful and outgoing, King Ruijun does not fight against power, Meng Zetian does not stutter, and the two of them are really quite close.
Along the way, there were brothers and made good friends, eagles soared in the sky, dogs barked on the ground, and hundreds of passers-by were also considered to be huge.
It made King Ruijun temporarily throw the forced depression and entanglement to the horizon, and he was so happy to talk and laugh with everyone.
Qi Xuanhui in this compartment, watching his ninth brother's love become more and more stable, his mood gradually relaxed, and the beautiful pastoral scenery around him also became vivid.
His eyes couldn't help himself, so he kept glancing up at the third carriage, as if he could see the people inside through the plank.
The young ladies who traveled together today added up to nine, in addition to the extra Miss Cao Er, Meng Yuele also had an extra dog skin plaster, her cousin Lu Shuang'er, this, but Mrs. Meng couldn't stand her sister-in-law's pleading, so she forced it.
Meng Yuele looked at her mother's embarrassment, and felt unhappy, but after all, they were all relatives, so they couldn't hurt their faces for this little thing, so they could only be helpless, and came with Lu Shuang'er, who was affectionate.
The nine young ladies now happen to be in three carriages, and Cai Kedai took Cui Wanying and Cui Wanyun, the two sisters-in-law, to sit in the first carriage.
Zheng Xiu'er, Meng Yuele, and Lu Shuang'er, the two cousins, took a carriage.
And Cui Wanqing naturally accompanied her cousin, and her cousin took the third car.
Although some people are unhappy about this distribution, it is also reasonable, fortunately, there is a sensible elder on each carriage, who will adjust the atmosphere, and the farther you go, the more different the scenery is in the capital, and there is no quarrel and annoyance.
At noon, I was also casually in the simple tea house next to the official road, and I had lunch improvised, and there was no Miss Jiao who complained.
Cui Wanqing felt that no one complained because of this, it was all due to King Ruijun and His Royal Highness the Thirteenth, with these two princes here, which young lady was more deliberate, paying attention to her appearance and demeanor, for fear that she would not do well there and be ridiculed by the princes.
To put it mildly, then I wish I was the best, the most attention-grabbing one, where there is no vision, to do that annoying?
This lunch is said to be simple, but each table is also six cold, six hot, twelve dishes, one sweet and one salty, two soups, four dim sum, and two pasta.
In an environment like a roadside tea house, it is quite good, Meng Yuele said with a smile, this is all thanks to her family's cooks, whose ancestors are all in the army, but also inherited some picnic skills.
Cui Wanqing felt that although the taste of this meal was average, the natural environment of the surrounding green mountains and dense forests, birds and insects chirping made up for the shortcomings of this meal, and it seemed that she felt that her appetite was better than that at home.
The only drawback is that the toilet is too inconvenient, check your own toilet, let alone a lady, even the old mother can't get off her feet, it can't be used at all.
Fortunately, there is a small forest behind the tea house, and the maids and mothers of each family work together to surround a simple curtain with green cloth, and with the commode brought by their respective families, it is even if it is a makeshift to solve the problem.
Cui Wanqing had followed Qi Xuanhui out of the house a few times in her previous life, so she knew that she should drink as little water as possible on this long journey, so as not to have anything difficult for herself.
Therefore, she was not too anxious from the morning to this meeting, and because of her reminder, the Cao family sisters were the same as her.
Only Lu Shuang'er, a not very popular person, no one mentioned it, and he was embarrassed to shout for this embarrassing thing, and when he was uncomfortable, he was about to cry.
Meng Yuele happened to watch the play, but Zheng Xiuer felt that she was pitiful, and she felt that she didn't remind her, so she was a little sorry, so she took the initiative to lift the curtain and call her eldest brother over, which made the convoy stop for a while, and accompanied Lu Shuang'er, who was red like blood, to the forest to solve the problem.
That scene, tsk, tsk, tsk, hundreds of people, dozens of carriages all stopped, just for Lu Shuang'er alone, this kind of feeling of being noticed by everyone at this moment, it is really indescribable.
Lu Shuang'er originally spent a lot of effort in order to be able to travel with her fifth cousin, and she tossed a lot in front of her mother, and she was naturally happy to get what she wanted, and she was always excited and happy.
But after this incident, I cried for a long time with shame and indignation, and I was not even embarrassed to get out of the car for lunch.
Meng Yuele is much more sensible now, she doesn't have the schadenfreude of falling into the well, and she also knows that she learned from Cui Wanqing to stay on the line, let the maid send lunch to Lu Shuang'er, and let the panicked cousin solve the problem of hunger in the car.
For this reason, she also got a few words of praise from Cui Wanqing behind her back, as if a little girl was about to fly, which diluted the regret of not being able to have Cui Wanqing with her along the way.
The Fengyun Mountain they are going to go to on this trip is not too far from the capital, but it is not close, fortunately it is a good summer resort there, and many dignitaries in the capital have villas there, so this official road has been repaired to the foot of Fengyun Mountain, and the road is accessible.
But Rao is like this, when Cui Wanqing and the others arrived at Mengjia Villa, the sky was already dark.
Meng Zelang was originally a person who was both civil and military, and he had already ordered people to hurry first, and when the team entered the villa, the boundaries where everyone lived had already been ordered, and the hot water and hot meals were all prepared, and the colors were all neat.
Thinking of the hard work of the young ladies all the way, dinner was sent directly to the room where the individual lived, and although the princes and sons were riding horses all the way, the men were obviously much more energetic than the women, and everyone was still in good spirits.
For such a long way, everyone came together, and they were familiar with each other, in order to be lively, Meng Zetian simply ordered someone to hold a banquet in the main hall, and everyone sat down to continue to talk, drink freely, and relieve fatigue.
Meng Yuele told Cui Wanqing that their villa was big, but it was not nonsense, let alone bluffing, their villa was bought decades ago.
It is a large courtyard built against the mountain, inside and outside, and a mountain path is also built on the back mountain, not only has a pavilion to rest, but also builds a bamboo building in the middle of the mountainside.
The old man, who was in Beijing at the time, was also a famous writer, and there were some furrows in his chest, and the courtyard he worked out with his heart also showed a different charm, which was very admirable.
Although it will be getting dark, and the mountain scenery in the distance is blurry and not very clear, but the two courtyards where Cui Wanqing and her family live are brightly lit, and they are so bright that they are not much worse than during the day. R1152