Chapter 82: The Banquet (2)
The attention of several maids was all drawn, and just in time to see that on the carriage, a noble girl in a red cloak was holding on to the hand of a maid with a faint smile, and every word and smile was a natural popularity.
When they saw the girl's extraordinary beauty, several maids finally knew who was the daughter of Sufu and who was the eldest girl of Sufu.
I have heard a lot of rumors about the eldest girl of Sufu, and I will ignore the truth or falsehood for the time being, but there is one that has been repeatedly mentioned without exception - the eldest girl of Sufu has outstanding appearance and is very outstanding.
Now that the girls in the carriage in front and behind are so compared, the winners and losers are immediately separated in appearance.
At that moment, they all withdrew their hands and headed for the carriage behind.
Su Nianqing was about to get off the carriage, one foot was already lifted in the air, and the sudden letting go of the maids caused her to almost lose her stability, lose her balance and fall, but fortunately, Liuli was always by her side and supported her in time, so she didn't make a fool of herself in public.
The smile on his face couldn't be hung up, and he couldn't help but look at the carriage behind him with hatred.
At that time, the maids who had just stepped forward to greet Su Nianqing enthusiastically rushed around Su Nianyu's side, and the maids who took the lead repeated what they had just said to Su Nianqing, and said apologetically: "The slave and maid recognized the second girl who walked in front as the eldest girl, and I hope that the eldest girl will forgive me." ”
Su Nianyu was about to answer, and heard one of the maids explain in a low voice: "It stands to reason that the eldest girl is from the grandmother, and the carriage should stop in front, and we never expected it to be so ......."
Before this maid finished speaking, she had already been drunk by the other maids who had grown up. In the end, he knew that the guests could not be offended: "What did we say, we recognized the wrong person, and it was ours." ”
The maid's voice was not too loud. But the two carriages stopped next to each other, and these words entered Su Nianqing's ears word for word, and for a while, her face turned blue again.
Su Nianyu smiled lightly, her face looked very soft, her dark eyes were shining, but the tail of her eyes flew to the carriage in front of her. really saw that the second sister who was not a weapon was stimulated and her face turned green.
I couldn't help but laugh more and more happily.
Seeing that the little girl's little face flushed, she probably just realized that she had said the wrong thing, so she hurriedly lowered her head.
Su Nianyu saw that the little maid was still young. I think I'm a newcomer, and I don't know how to deal with it.
The maid who heard the words just now smiled and said respectfully: "This girl has just been recruited back to the mansion to take care of the flowers and plants in the courtyard, and she is young, so she hasn't had time to teach her properly. I didn't mean to offend the eldest girl and the second girl. ”
Su Nian said, "It's nothing. "I took a look at the second sister-in-law. I didn't intend to say anything decent for her, so I walked to the gate surrounded by the bunch of maids.
There was also a maid who went over and led Su Nianqing, "Second girl, please go this way." ”
The handkerchief in Su Nianqing's hand was already unshaped, and she looked at the eldest sister who was led by a few maids in front of her, and then saw that there was only one one to lead the way on her side.
This is the difference between a concubine and a concubine.
Why is she a concubine? She's a concubine?
Su Nianyu took the time to look in front of her, and happened to see the second sister's gnashing of teeth. smiled and said, "Second sister, this banquet will start soon, if you don't hurry up, I'm afraid you'll be late." ”
Su Nianqing was no longer reconciled, so she had to raise her pace and rush in.
Wang Mansion lives in the imperial court's four-grade official Wang Dusi, that is, Wang Xuan's father, because of being the provincial capital, and his personality is more rigid, Wang Dusi has always been a straight face, not smiling, and his lifelong wish is to teach Wang Xuan to be a quiet lady who knows how to advance and retreat.
But he didn't want to, but Wang Xuan became a lively and straightforward character, and his temperament was 108,000 miles away, every time he wanted to train her, he gave up because she was his baby pimple, and Wang Xuan's temperament became more and more unexpected than Wang Dusi.
Fortunately, in addition to being lively, her daughter can barely be called a lady, and she likes to laugh very much, so Wang Dusi simply let her grow up happily.
There are always more than a dozen small banquets held by Wang Xuan in a year, although Wang Dusi feels that his daughter's family should be reserved and quiet, but he can't resist his own daughter, so he let her go.
Not only that, but he also instructed his subordinates to cooperate as much as possible, so there are strange flowers and plants all over the Wang Mansion, and even the few pavilions and pavilions that the maid led Su Nianyu to walk through are all dressed up.
From time to time, you can still see a few maids carrying melons, fruits, flowers and plants, and there are even more people who are hurrying away with pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Su Nianyu couldn't help but have doubts in her heart, the banquet of the girl's family is mostly about eating snacks, appreciating flowers, playing chess or talking, how can she still use pen, ink, paper and inkstone?
But she could see it clearly......
The banquet venue was set up in a back garden of Wang's mansion, and the bustling peach blossoms bloomed and fell in pink.
Su Nianyu is very familiar with this place, and this is all thanks to her and Wang Xuan, every time they meet, they all come to this peach blossom forest, just because Wang Xuan loves peach blossoms very much.
The peach blossom forest is very large, but it is not densely planted, and a very spacious open space is left in the middle, and several exquisite pavilions are built as resting places. Because of the banquet, these pavilions have become the best place to greet the ladies who come to the appointment, and the decoration is dotted with silky tulle, gently swinging in the air with the wind, and lining the peach blossoms in the garden, which is also very wonderful.
At this time, there are people in several pavilions, some are playing with black and white in their hands, some are chatting with tea dignifiedly, some are playing the piano and dancing, and some are even waving handkerchiefs to chase each other in the peach blossom forest.
This back garden has truly become the world of the girl's home.
As soon as Su Nianyufang approached the peach garden, he found Wang Xuan sitting in the nearest pavilion talking with melon seeds and other young ladies, dressed in bright red clothes.
Wang Xuan sat in the position of facing the hanging flower gate into the garden, and when he saw her coming, his eyes immediately lit up, and he put down the melon seeds in an uproar, and said goodbye to the girl who was talking, and then lifted the corner of his skirt and smiled out of the pavilion to greet her.
"I said Nianyu, but I finally looked forward to you!"
Su Nianyu also laughed, and when she saw that she stretched out her hand to pull her, she hurriedly turned sideways, and said unceremoniously: "Wang Xuan, you just grabbed the melon seeds with this hand, and now you want to pull my clothes, you think beautifully." ”
It happened that the maid who was waiting in the pavilion chased after Wang Xuan, and hurriedly handed the moist wool handkerchief for cleaning her hands to her own girl.
Wang Xuan didn't care about Su Nianyu's words, smiled and took the hairpa and wiped his hands, and then handed the hairpa back to the maid's hand, Fang affectionately held Su Nianyu's hand: "Come on, go and sit in the pavilion, fortunately, I have left two places for you." ”
After that, he glanced at Su Nianqing, who was following Su Nianyu, and said with a smile: "Second Miss Su should not be formal." ”
Su Nianqing, who had been silently following behind him and maintaining a dignified smile all the way, was blessed and replied softly: "I will not be polite to you." ”
"That's very good."
Wang Xuan threw down this sentence and pulled Su Nianyu towards the pavilion.
Su Nianqing also followed with a smile, but she was unhappy in her heart.
Wang Mansion is not a stranger to her, in the past, if the eldest sister came to Wang Mansion to get together with Wang Xuan, she would always agree to take her with her, and even spoke well for her in front of Wang Xuan. Helplessly, Wang Xuan's attitude towards her and her attitude towards the eldest sister are obvious, and she can call her affectionately to the eldest sister, and the address to her has always been Miss Su Er.
Polite and distant.
She tried to get close to Wang Xuan, but she was always unhappy.
And when the ladies of each family get together, they are treated so differently, but what do you want other ladies to think of her? Do you say that she does not please the master's family?
The more Su Nianqing thought about it, the more angry she became, but she didn't dare to show it, but she thought in her heart that it would be okay if she couldn't please Wang Xuan, and if she couldn't make friends, she could still get closer to other official ladies. When she was getting full-fledged, she kicked the eldest sister and Wang Xuan who annoyed her!
Thinking like this, Su Nianqing's heart felt a lot better.
There were already two young girls sitting in the pavilion, and when they saw them entering, they got up to greet them.
Su Nianyu looked at the two girls, both of whom had more dealings with Wang Xuan on weekdays, and she could be regarded as having met a few times and had an eye for each other.
The girl on the right wearing goose yellow clothes is named Pan Jingruo, as her name suggests, quiet and soft-looking, just pursing her lips and smiling lightly at the moment; Although he has not yet reached the end of the year, he has been engaged to Xu Lingchen, the son of Xu Youdu Yushi, since he was a child, which is a very enviable and beautiful thing.
said that it was enviable, but it was something she heard from the mouth of the young lady next to her when they got together in the past.
According to legend, the two will be engaged, because their parents have frequent exchanges and a very good relationship, and Xu Youdu Yushi does not care about his friends being only five-grade official positions, so he resolutely decided to become in-laws; Fortunately, Pan Jingruo's brother Pan Jiayao competed and entered the Hanlin Academy to serve and became a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, which narrowed the distance between the two families.
Moreover, it is Xu Lingchen.
Xu Lingchen is gentle and elegant, handsome and sturdy, and he also follows his father's old path, becoming a superintendent of the imperial history, and having his father to take care of him, his future is naturally very good.
Such a good son, but he has a marriage contract with Miss Pan Jingruo, a five-grade official family, which is really regrettable, and it makes people envy Miss Pan for such a good thing.
Another official lady in a pink dress, Xu Man'er, Su Nianyu can't talk about a good feeling, just because it is a microphone, to inquire about the old things of the young ladies of each family for fun, her mouth is not blocked, and she can't control her mouth, if she goes there, it will spread throughout the capital in a few days.
As a result, the other official ladies were intentionally or unintentionally not too close to her, so Wang Xuan's resolute personality dared to warn her not to talk nonsense and to be with her.
…… and her second sister-in-law Su Nianqing.
Obviously, Xu Man'er also didn't have a good impression of her, and even had a little disgust, and when she saw Su Nianqing standing beside her, she stepped forward and took her hand with a smile: "Second Miss Su, I haven't seen you for a long time, but you are becoming more and more standard." (To be continued......)
PS: Lantern Festival,
Happy Lantern Festival, dear friends.