Bai Qingshuang, who followed Wan Niang while memorizing the way, really admired her feet and body a little, she was a little out of breath at a trot, but Wan Niang was breathing smoothly like no one.

"It's here!" Stopping in front of a large mansion that was almost invisible on both sides, Wan Niang pointed to the plaque under the eaves and explained, "Today is the thirteenth birthday of the eldest lady of the Protector's Mansion, and there will be many dignitaries and nobles in the future. ”

"Tut-tut! This house is really not ordinarily big! Bai Qingshuang, who was breathless, sighed while panting, and looked at the big mansion where they were some distance away.

I saw that the four gilded characters of "Protector's Mansion" under the eaves were written with dragons and phoenixes dancing, and the atmosphere was magnificent.

The green glazed tiles on the roof reflect the dazzling light in the sunlight, the lacquered pillars of the Zhumen, and the two large lanterns on the left and right are each written in block letters.

Just a corridor, the spacious Cheng dù is wider than the width of her main house. The corridor was paved with smooth stone bricks, and it followed six stone steps to where they were standing.

On both sides of the wide stone steps are two majestic and solemn stone lions, with their mouths wide open, as if they want to eat all over the world.

"That is, although the title of the Duke of Protector is hereditary, but since the founding of our dynasty, the princes of the Protectorate Mansion have all been brave and good at fighting, capable of writing and martial arts, and even won the emperor's favor, and their status is far higher than that of other Princes and Princes!" Wan Niang and Youyan introduced.

Bai Qingshuang secretly pursed her lips, thinking disapprerovitically: No wonder it is a little girl who celebrates her thirteenth birthday, and she has to celebrate her birthday as an old man, which shows luxury.

"Sister Wan, we work hard to make money, maybe we can live in such a big house one day!" Bai Qingshuang's "fairy tales" said.

Wan Niang smiled very facelessly, gently stroked her thin little face and said, "Sister Shuang, it's not that my sister doesn't want to get rich, and it's not that she wants to hit you." It's just that we can afford such a house by selling flowers, it's really a fool's dream! ”

"It's better to have a dream than not to have a dream, and it's better than being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day!" Her dream of Bai Qingshuang is not just selling flowers.

"Hmmm! That's right, Shuang'er's ambitions are high, and her sister will follow her sister! Wan Niang joked, not taking her words seriously.

Bai Qingshuang didn't care, after all, she hadn't come to this world for much time, but she had already seen the gap between the rich and the poor, and people's minds stopped abruptly because of this gap.

The two chatted for a while, and when they were about to reach Shen, they saw the first carriage coming from a distance and stopping in front of the gate of the Protector's Mansion.

At this time, the door of the house, which had been closed, was opened, and out of it came a man and two women, both dressed in satin clothes.

The man wears a scarf on his head, elegant and humble, and is about thirty or forty years old.

The two women wore their hair in a meticulous bun, wore gold and silver, and were extravagant, one in her twenties and thirties, and the other in her forties and fifties.

"Look, it's just the official house in the front yard and the two grandmothers in the backyard, this dress is not comparable to ordinary people." Wan Niang looked envious, "If this master's family gains power, even the slaves will follow." ”

Bai Qingshuang couldn't help but stick out her tongue and said, "Tsk! I thought it was my sister talking about the protector and his wife! It turned out to be just a subordinate! ”

"It's just an ordinary birthday for a child's family, even if the parents value it, they won't take the initiative to greet the little guests!" Wan Niang couldn't help laughing when she heard this, but she didn't mean to laugh at her, because she knew that Bai Qingshuang's family was poor, so she naturally regarded it as the master when she saw someone wearing gold and silver.

At this time, a mother-in-law and a little maid had come down one after another in the stopped carriage, and Wan Niang saw that the time was almost up, so she opened her throat and called in a coquettish voice: "Sell flowers!" Sell flowers! Fragrant magnolia flowers! Sell flowers! Sell flowers! Fragrant and elegant jasmine! ”

Wan Niang's shouting made Bai Qingshuang, who was still emotional, suddenly have an idea, and remembered a Jiangnan folk song, which is called "What a beautiful jasmine".

After thinking about the tune, regardless of whether the lyrics were remembered accurately or not, she cleared her throat and hummed softly: "What a beautiful jasmine, what a beautiful jasmine, fragrant and beautiful, fragrant and white people praise ......"

Wanniang, who was shouting, was stunned for a moment, but soon found that Bai Qingshuang was humming with the charm of Jiangnan Minor, so she whispered: "Sister Shuang, this song sounds very good, you can sing it louder, I will cooperate with you!" ”

Bai Qingshuang also found that this original body really had a sweet and pure good voice, singing such a Jiangnan minor tune was just right, and with Wan Niang's encouragement, she immediately raised her voice a little higher.

At this time, another carriage came, and after saluting each other with the thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl who had arrived first, the last girl in the carriage and the thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl who had arrived earlier had exchanged salutes, and then walked towards Bai Qingshuang and them hand in hand, followed by the mother-in-law and maid who did not leave their side.

The younger girl has a baby face, laughs with two small dimples, a red and bright camellia on her head, and on the other side is a heavy golden step, which looks a little shaky on the not very plump bun, and she probably thinks that the golden step is too heavy, and from time to time she has to look sideways at the bead strings.

The slightly older girl Danfeng has beautiful eyes and willow eyebrows, and will help her tidy it up when she sees this.

After the two of them came to Bai Qingshuang and stood beside them with a whisper and laughing, the little girl looked at Bai Qingshuang innocently and said, "What are you singing, it sounds very good!" ”

"It's just a Jiangnan minor tune that is hummed casually!" This little girl's appearance looked very innocent, and Bai Qingshuang couldn't help but have a good impression of her, and stopped singing to answer her.

The older girl looked at Wan Niang's hand and the string of flowers in the bamboo basket, and although she looked at the little girl with a caring and intimate appearance, she asked with a little disdain for the simple Wan Niang's tone: "What are you?" ”

Bai Qingshuang hated the snobbery of the woman and the contempt in her eyes, but she also knew that she couldn't hold her breath at this time, the current social system was not a society where everyone was equal in her previous life, but a feudal society where the rich and noble wanted to punish a person more lightly than pinching an ant to death.