The next day, the sky was just white, and Mrs. Cheng on the back door of Cui's Mansion was standing at the door of the room stretching her waist without hesitation, yawning, and was frightened by the knock on the door.

"It's that little bastard who doesn't have long eyes, he didn't raise the corpse at home so early, and he came to our Cui family to make trouble!" Cheng Pozi, who was taken aback, let go of her voice and scolded loudly with her hands on her waist.

I heard a crisp voice outside and smiled: "Mother Cheng, it's me, Ah Tao." ”

Mrs. Cheng changed her face at this time, and while adjusting her clothes with her hands, she hurried over to open the door.

"Oh, it's a peach girl, why did you come so early? It's still early. Mrs. Cheng smiled with a wrinkled face and asked earnestly.

Ah Tao smiled and handed over something, and said softly: "It's not early, I still have to serve Miss Nine in the morning, don't dare to delay, here are two meat buns from the Jia family, you eat it while it's hot." ”

Mrs. Cheng smelled the fragrance of the buns, thanked her with joy, and watched Ah Tao trotting all the way to Qingyuan.

"Such a clever and good boy, but in that yard, alas, it's really a waste, and I don't know what her aunt thinks." Mrs. Cheng sighed, took a bite of the meat bun fiercely, and looked satisfied.

Ah Tao hurried to Qingyuan, and finally Cui Wanqing hadn't gone out yet, she looked at Brother Li and pulled the fruit out, so she whispered something in Cui Wanqing's ear.

Cui Wanqing pursed the corners of her mouth after hearing this, twisted her face and instructed Yingqiao: "In a while, you will loosen the side of the West Wing, so that Ma's mother can fulfill her wish, and when she leaves, you will come to Dongfu to look for me, and I happen to go over to ask the old lady for peace today." ”

When she said this, she smiled very happily, and casually stuffed the jade ring on her hand to Ah Tao.

"It's a coincidence." Yingqiao's eyes flashed slightly, and she felt that her master's hand was also too big, so she had to find a free time and said it well.

Cui Wanqing rummaged in the jewelry box again, and finally found a plain silver beaded ring, "Ah Tao and Guo'er will accompany me to ask for peace, let Brother Li accompany you at home, and let her have a good day today." ”

Yingqiao nodded knowingly, personally sent Cui Wanqing to the gate, and looked at the glass rose lantern in the hands of Ah Tao and Guo'er far away, then turned around and went back to the house.

"You're going to have to take care of yourself now, you know?"

Brother Li nodded solemnly, but he didn't say a word.

Yingqiao shook her head helplessly, patted Brother Li's shoulder soothingly, and pulled her to Cui Wanqing's boudoir.

In the main hall of Rongyuan, Cui Wanqing found that the fourth sister sitting opposite was dressed up extraordinarily today.

The peach red Baizi carved silk picks the gold thread of the collared Confucian skirt, and the green plate gold embroidered skirt contains cigarettes.

A black hair is tied in a hanging bun, and a royal blue Tucui peacock hanging hairpin is obliquely placed on it, and under the three pearl tassels, a thumb-sized sapphire has fallen.

The expression on his face was extraordinarily supple, not as high as in the past, and he no longer squinted at people, but he knew that he would follow the words of the fifth sister and praise the twelfth sister a few words.

And the eldest sister on the first seat was also very cooperative and laughing, and she couldn't see it at all, she felt that there was something wrong with her sister's abnormality.

Cui Wanqing smiled and picked up the tea cup of white porcelain pastel peony flowers, cocked her elegant orchid fingers, brushed the tea surface with the lid of the cup, lowered her head and took a small sip of hot tea, "It seems that these sisters have already gotten the news." ”

The two of them are the oldest, and their power in the backyard of Xifu is second only to that of Mrs. Cui, and there is their own brother in the outer courtyard to echo, so it is not surprising that they are the first to know the news.

The fourth sister should have moved.

In fact, I heard Ah Tao say so eloquently in the morning, if it weren't for the fact that I was clear in my heart, I was afraid that I would have to plan one or two, after all, the opportunity is rare, after this village, there is no such shop.

"I don't know what kind of reaction will the fifth sister who is virtuous and virtuous in her family feel after she gets the news?" Cui Wanqing smiled and put the tea cup in her hand on the desk, but there was no sound.

The ladies of Xifu, every three days, have to go to Dongfu to ask the old lady to say goodbye, no matter what Mrs. Cui thinks in her heart, but this is a major matter related to the word filial piety, and she doesn't dare to be careless.

Seeing that the hour was almost up, he sent Mother Chen, who was beside him, to accompany a few young ladies to Dongfu to say goodbye to the old lady.

A quarter of an hour later, the six green forging Xiaojiao arrived at the gate of the Songcui Courtyard where the old Fengjun lived in the Cui Family's East Mansion.

This is the largest courtyard in the east and west, in which there are five main houses alone, more than a dozen wing rooms on both sides, and the ground house where the maid and wife in the backyard live, to say the least, there are twenty or thirty rooms.

Cui Wanqing followed behind her sisters, entered the weeping flower gate, and walked past a large interstitial screen with a 'Five Blessings Holding Longevity' rosewood carved bats, and saw that the courtyard was a bamboo sea with wind, and flowers and trees were verdant.

On the verandah on both sides, there are many cages of birds, and the birds of all colors inside are chirping and chirping, so happy.

The five upper rooms directly opposite, all of which are carved beams and painted buildings, with white walls and red windows, and the windows are pasted with new emerald curtains, reflecting the green trees and red flowers all over the courtyard, which is really good to see.

"The young lady from Xifu came over to say hello to the old lady!" In the distance, I heard the little maids on the green jade steps, talking loudly.

When the Cui Wanqing sisters stepped on the steps, they opened the curtains very briskly and waited for the ladies to enter the house with smiles on their faces.

The main hall of the old lady is very wide, and there is a wide purple nan wood inlaid luodian jade stone pine crane three-screen arhat couch in the front.

On both sides, there is a large vase of pink porcelain glazed multicolored spring grass on the shelf of purple nan wood, and a pair of purple nan wood carved stilts, on which the small objects commonly used in this day are placed.

On the front wall, there is a picture of the pine crane extending the year, and on both sides hangs a couplet, 'green pine and green bamboo mark aroma, purple swallow and yellow oriole sing in good spring'.

This is the birthday gift given by Mr. Panshi, a master of calligraphy in the world, on the 50th birthday of the old lady, which is very liked by the old lady.

There are two twelve official hat chairs on the ground, on which are set up with purple crane lingzhi chairs, and between the two chairs, there is a small table with square carved purple nanmu wood, on which are white porcelain moire tea cups and four fresh snacks.

On the walls on both sides of the east and west, there are many pairs of celebrity calligraphy and paintings, and the smell of books is very strong.

Cui Wanqing stepped on the red soft carpet with soft soles under her feet, divided into two rows with her sisters, and said goodbye to her ancestors.

Cui Wanhua and Cui Wanying sisters sat for a while, so they resigned and went to school.

In the envious eyes of the sisters, Cui Wanqing felt that the head of her fourth sister seemed to be raised a little higher, and she couldn't help but be a little worried that she would twist her neck.

The Cui family has a family rule, the young master who has reached the age of six, regardless of his concubine, has to go to school, and the young masters all come to ask for peace early, which will be afraid that they are already in school.

Cui Wanqing lived far away, and they were always the last to arrive, and they missed it with their brothers eight out of ten.

After saying goodbye, after chatting a few words, Mrs. Cui left Cui Wanyun alone, Cui Wanjiao and Cui Wanqing accompanied her to talk and relieve her boredom, and the other ladies let them go back.

The grandparents and grandchildren tasted tea, used small snacks, and gossiped, but it was also relaxed and comfortable.

Although Cui Wanqing wanted to be close to her grandmother, in front of others, she still chose to let her fifth sister be in the limelight.

Cui Wanyun also came prepared today, and was telling the old lady about the landscape travelogue she had recently read, coincidentally, talking about the scenery in the south.

The old lady is Miss Jiao from the water town in the south, married far away to the capital, and when she is old, isn't she the most nostalgic?

Cui Wanyun's topic is exactly in line with the old man's mind, at the beginning Cui Wanyun said, but when she got to the back, it became the old lady to talk to her granddaughters.

What is the ten-mile lotus pond in the south of the Yangtze River, what is the sugar man in front of the Chenghuang Temple, what is the Liu family's gold and green bamboo fan, this is happy, and I saw a pretty maid wearing water red shoulder to shoulder, goose egg face, and willow eyebrows.

smiled and replied to the old lady: "Old lady, the little girl in the outer world wanted to find her master to go out to talk, and the maid called her in, but she was pushing, and she didn't know what was good, so she didn't dare to tell us, she had to be so mysterious." ”