Chapter 17: Coming to the Future
Zhou Baolu just entered the door, the brocade cotton curtain just lifted, there was a lot of heat, the main room of the eldest princess Jinghe, the earth dragon burned warm, the big clothes could not be worn, Zhou Baolu took off the cloak of the red Hangzhou satin fox fur in front of the Duobao Pavilion, and walked inside, I saw a room full of flowers, and the eldest princess sat in front of four or five neatly dressed ladies and grandmothers.
Zhou Baolu bent her knees and blessed the eldest princess Jinghe, and the ladies and grandmothers in front of her all knew each other, Zhou Baolu smiled at the corner of her mouth, and saluted next to her: "Hello cousin, good cousin, good cousin and aunt......"
The voice is clear, the movements are generous, the salute is steady and steady, and even the sound of the hairpin ring is heard, and after a round of greetings, he gently retreats to the side, and does not say much.
It's just that the girl's family is a delicate guest, and there is no reason to stand, and a maid has already moved an embroidery stool to put next to the eldest princess Jinghe, and asked Zhou Baolu to sit.
They are all noble families, and they have been married to the royal family for many years, so naturally they can count some roundabout relatives, like the closest to Jing and the eldest princess, who is the wife of the old man Cheng'en Gongfang's family today.
Queen Fang went early, but she left an eldest son for today, and this eldest son was also raised, sixteen this year, I don't know if it is because of the relationship between this eldest son, today has not been re-established, and the harem is now managed by the biological mother of the second prince, Concubine Qing.
As long as there is no prince, the eldest son of the emperor has always been more noble than other brothers, and the current Chengen Gong of the Fang family, the maternal uncle of the eldest son of the emperor, is still precious.
This is a relationship of both prosperity and loss.
Mrs. Fang's mother's family and her husband's family are related to Jinghe's eldest princess's house, and they are still close, her mother and Jinghe's eldest princess are two aunts and cousins, when Mrs. Fang married into Cheng'en's family, Jing and the eldest princess were not very reluctant, and the two families were once moving around a lot, but they have gradually become closer in the past two years.
At this time, Zhou Baolu was sitting upright, her little face was lined with brocade red and butterfly robes, and Mrs. Fang took Zhou Baolu's hand and smiled: "Sister Lu is becoming more and more a big girl, look at this steady and sensible appearance, and her cousin's house can raise such a young lady." ”
Jinghe, the eldest princess smiled: "Don't praise her like this, she is just a face-saving person in front of people, and she is very naughty when she carries people, and it gives me a headache." ”
When several wives and grandmothers saw that there was a young lady present, it was not good to talk about the previous matter, and when they saw that Mrs. Fang had started, they all praised the young lady and said with a smile: "Whose child is not like this?" In the end, it's a child, and it's not good. As long as you see someone sensible, know how to advance and retreat, it is good, no one is in front of you, the ancestors who can coax them like it, this is filial piety, the ancients are so old, and they want to entertain their relatives with colorful clothes, and no one says that he doesn't understand etiquette, right? I think that, it's also Sister Lu who often coaxes the ancestors to like it, and the ancestors are getting younger and younger. ”
Zhou Baolu didn't say anything, just laughed, Jinghe eldest princess Princess liked it more and more, and said with a smile: "You are indulging the children more and more." ”
The third aunt Liang saw that the ladies were not good to talk about things, so she turned around and quietly instructed the maid behind her, and after a while, she saw the nurse hugging Zhou Baojing, Liang stood up and said with a smile: "Our sister also came to ask the sisters to say goodbye." ”
Zhou Baolu smiled and stepped forward to hug Zhou Baojing, because Zhou Baojing was chubby, wearing a thick and fluffy jacket, like a little fat bear, Zhou Baolu didn't move much, only hugged her and put it down, held her little fat hand, and taught her to say hello next to her.
Zhou Baojing's chubby apple face, milky greetings, people like it very much, several wives and grandmothers hugged her and praised her for a while, Zhou Baolu smiled at Jinghe eldest princess: "My sister is also naughty here, I'll take my sister to play in the warm pavilion behind." ”
The eldest princess Jinghe liked her eyes, and said with a smile: "Go ahead, it's warmer than this in the warm pavilion, but your sister is small, so be careful." ”
He sent someone again: "Send the new fruits and snacks to the young ladies, and ask a few more people to watch them." ”
Even a few wives and grandmothers nodded secretly in their hearts, secretly praising this young lady for her good upbringing, knowing how to advance and retreat, and doing things naturally.
The first two warm pavilions, Zhou Baolu entered the east side of the back of the main hall, and there were only two huanghuali cabinets in front of it, Zhou Baolu hugged Zhou Baojing to the kang, took something for her to play, and asked her if she wanted to eat the fruit, seeing that she was very bored playing alone, she sent someone: "Which of you go back to our yard to see, if the third sister is also playing, just say to Aunt Jin, take it here and play with the second sister." ”
A little girl agreed to go, and Sakura walked in with a smile: "Girl, I heard something." ”
Zhou Baolu said: "It's weird, I said where did you go to drill sand, I haven't seen you for half a day." ”
Sakura smiled: "Didn't the girl send me to the ancestors to send the pomelo that came up from Zhuangzi, I just came out and walked up the steps after replying, and I saw a few Duchess Chengen come in, and I heard that Sister Xiang has always been good to me, and they didn't go into the room to serve, so I invited them to drink tea in the back yard, I heard that the third lady of the Zhang family of the mighty Marquis is going to enter the palace to be the side concubine of the second prince." ”
Second prince?
Of course, Zhou Baolu remembered that Miss Zhang San who fell into the water at her uncle's house, wasn't she the Huang Gongzi she had a crush on at that time? Zhou Baolu had Sakura's bag to inquire about the gossip king by her side, and as soon as the banquet was dispersed that day, she already knew that Huang Gongzi was a side branch of the princess of Yan Wang's maiden family, and the Huang family was not an important noble family, that is, when the family was killed and injured seventy percent of the Yan King, he got a loyal uncle, and Huang Gongzi, as a side branch of the loyal liebo, was put together with the second prince, how can it be compared to Jin Zun Yugui and Hanmen grass mustard.
How do you think about this thing, it's weird, this kind of trick of falling into the water, it's just a matter of bullying someone with a worse identity, in fact, it's often what you and I want, who doesn't weigh it before you do it? is like what my aunt said: No one is a fool, dare to think about what you can't think?
But the second prince should really be an unthinkable one.
Zhou Baolu saw that Sakura was still waiting on the side, so she said, "What's the matter, what's more?" ”
Gossip still sounds interesting, it's weird to say, Zeng's is the most stable and doesn't like to talk about other people's affairs, the two girls who were brought up by his own hands, Miss Chen Jiu Chen Xiqing and Zhou Baolu are very fond of gossip, the two of them get together not to mention how lively they are, the quarrel is cut again, there are a lot of words, and they can talk for half the day!
Sakura knew her own young lady's temperament, nodded hurriedly, and took a step forward very cautiously, and whispered, "What are the girls doing today when all these ladies and grandmothers come to greet the princess?" I heard that it was because of the rumors in the palace that the emperor intended to choose concubines for several masters. ”
Tsk, that has nothing to do with her.
Today's several princes, the age of the first three are all neat, and they are almost the same, now the uncle will be seventeen during the New Year, and the second master and the third master should be sixteen, and the fourth master, the fifth master and the sixth master are still young and can't even speak clearly, which is really a strange thing, together with the fifteen or sixteen-year-old eldest princess, the second princess and the third princess, and the other princesses are also the size of Zhou Baojing.
However, no one knows what Lu Dao is for, and Zhou Baolu naturally can't care about it, but when it comes to choosing concubines for the first three masters, they are all ages, and the imperial capital city has been discussing this matter since the uncle was fourteen, and there are three concubines in a row, and I don't know which three young ladies have this creation.
After this village, it will take more than ten years to have the prince's concubine.
And among these three young ladies, there is a more creative one.
The three princes are all born with the emperor, all neat, and they are all smart and capable, who is not hot, although because of the few masters one day is like a day, the palace has been fighting for two years like a black-eyed chicken, no one is light, but the princess will open the palace when he gets married, and the princess will only be in the back yard of his house, the uncle has no biological mother, and the mothers and concubines of the second and third masters are all in the palace, and there is no mother-in-law staring at the house, which is more comfortable than the average lady and grandmother.
Zhou Baolu felt that she was still young, and she couldn't get along with several masters, and she didn't take it to heart, just to listen to it as gossip. Then he asked, "What else?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard his cousin Zhou Anming's voice: "Where is the eldest sister?" ”
A maid hurriedly replied and pointed the way, and Zhou Anming came in with the third lady Zhou Baoqi.
Zhou Baolu raised her head and smiled: "Why did you bring the third sister here." ”
Zhou Anming said with a smile: "I'll go to say hello to the second aunt, by the way, look at what you're doing, but you're not there, I just saw you send a girl to pick up the third sister, so I simply went to hug me." ”
Zhou Baoqi's eyebrows and eyes are similar to Zhou Baojing's, they are about the same age, and they are both round and chubby, this snowy day, as usual, they are wearing a red jacket, which looks like a pair of fat dolls jumping down from a New Year's painting.
Zhou Anming and Zhou Baolu are not much older than each other, they are brothers and sisters, they have been mixed together since childhood, they are naturally familiar, even if they grow up to be different from men and women, that family can't be beaten, Zhou Baolu stood up and took Zhou Baoqi in his arms and put it on the kang, Zhou Baojing tilted his head and looked at Zhou Anming for a while, and asked Zhou Baoqi to pull his clothes, and he forgot to look at people, and the two fat dolls met their heads and played together.
Zhou Anming sat down on the chair under the window, took the tea handed by the maid, and put it on the coffee table at hand, Zhou Baolu smiled first: "I am also thinking about this in the wax moon, it is snowing, you should also take a holiday, I prefer not to see you for a few days, where to go to play without me?" ”
Zhou Anming is a very beautiful young man, not like the head of the family, but the shadow of some royal people, the Dasheng royal family is famous for his exquisite appearance, and the first noble person in the world on the Kowloon Throne today is as beautiful as a jade carving, when Zhou Anming just opened his facial features, Jinghe eldest princess said that this child looks like a little bit of the shadow of a royal brother.
At this time, Zhou Anming was not reserved at all, and he didn't look like the respectful and restrained appearance in front of the eldest princess in Jinghe, lazily spread out on the chair, his hands were not hands and feet, and he looked like a hanger, but the snow light outside the window was reflected, his eyes were extraordinarily deep, and the shadows of the two rows of eyelashes fell on the bottom of the eyes, as if a butterfly was falling.
He raised his chin and said, "I still have time to go out to play, as soon as the school stopped, my grandfather took me out of the camp and handed me over to the camp under the roots of Jinshan, not to mention how sad the days were, this morning the snow was so heavy, so I was called back, it can be regarded as a comfortable day!" I caught a pair of pheasants halfway up the mountain, and they look beautiful, so I'll keep them for you. ”
Zhou Baolu smiled: "Then I will thank the big brother." ”
"Don't!" Zhou Anming waved his hand: "I want to thank you." Our brothers and sisters, I have something to say, to say that I have my back to the princess's mansion, the son is not the son, the horizontal and vertical can't shorten my share, although I have no father, but I have an uncle and an uncle, no matter what errand I choose in the future, I will be as happy. I didn't think that this would detain me, and I saw that there would be hard work in the future, and I had the heart not to flatter it, and I couldn't sleep at night because my mother was happy that day, and I said it all night in front of my father's spirit, and I couldn't do it, even if it was hard, it was worth it. ”
Zhou Baolu smiled, she knows the temperament of this brother, she is smart, she played chickens and dogs when she was a child, and she had the most ghost ideas, that is, she generated a lazy temperament, very freewheeling, and eclectic. It's been two years old, and it's about a little more restrained on the surface, what's going on in private, Zhou Baolu has also heard a few, in the first half of the year, he met the youngest son of the Admiral of Jiumen flirting with a courtesan in the teahouse, he looked at it, and felt that people were dirty, and he couldn't look at it, I don't know what kind of trick he used, and coaxed out a hundred taels of silver from that kid, and people kowtowed as if he was a life-saving bodhisattva, and when he turned his head, he gave the silver to the courtesan, telling her to hide by herself.
didn't think about it, the courtesan was a person who had read the book, and immediately recognized that he wanted to make a promise, and chased him to the Zhenguo Mansion, kneeling and kowtowing at the door, which alarmed the eldest princess Jinghe, and Zhou Anming was beaten by his grandfather Zhou Chao.
Zhou Chao's reason is also very strange: "I don't beat you for meddle with things, I just can't end up for what you do, and it's like this, this beating makes you remember in the future, no matter if you do good or bad things, idle things are serious, think about how to end it before the beginning, as long as you do it slippery and slippery, you can't catch your handle, you can't be beaten." ”
Zhou Anming recuperated in bed for a few days, and Zhou Baolu also heard about it, and personally laughed at him and sent him a stick sore medicine.
Listening to Zhou Anming's words at this time, Zhou Baolu knew that he was interested in the position of the son of this world.
As long as he has the heart, he can do anything.