As soon as Mrs. Qiu went out, the family members of the Xinguo Mansion immediately went to the Deyang County Lord's Mansion to report. The inner city is adjacent to the east city, and it will not take long for Qiu Lao Taijun to reach the north of the east city from the southeast direction of the inner city.

The lord of Deyang County is receiving the ladies and ladies of each family in the flower hall at this time, and this "Osmanthus Club" has been more than two months away from the last "Peach Blossom Meeting", and many families immediately agreed as soon as they received the post.

Not only does the friendship between men need to be maintained, but it is even more necessary to be in the back house and often go to the ladies of various provinces.

As the princess of Da Chu, the county lord of Deyang has been covering the daughters of the eunuchs of Da Chu for the current emperor, and when Chu Rui's princess marries in the future and can do this instead of her, she will retire from this stage.

This is what she is willing to do to repay her brother, and it is her duty as a royal family.

Several of her younger sisters are not sociable, and they don't get along well with the horses in the Pony Mansion, let alone be able to put □ time when socializing.

Deyang County hosted a flower banquet, which was naturally held in the garden. Fangfei Garden is the garden of the Deyang County Lord's Mansion, accounting for half the size of the County Lord's Mansion, Yibin Xiong Le loves flowers, and then successively moved some wings, went to the wall, changed to an open structure, and planted vine flowers, made decorations, actually in the Tianxiang Garden of Fangfei Garden, a huge flower hall was created.

Every time there is a banquet, almost all of them are held in this flower hall.

In order to allow guests to rest and enjoy, not only pavilions and pavilions were built, but also flower sheds, flower galleries, flower stands and other things, and even a lot of swings were dotted in the meantime, no girl did not like here.

"The third mother of the Jiang family is getting longer and more peugeot now, look at this little face, it looks like it can pinch out the water......" The county lord of Deyang grabbed the hand of Jiang Qingling, the third mother of the Jiang family, "I heard that your second brother is going to Beijing?" ”

"Yes, my brother is engaged to the eldest girl of the Zhang family, and my father asked him to go to Beijing to prepare for the marriage." This third lady of the Jiang family is more gentle, although she was looked at by the county lord of Deyang, her hand was still in her hand, but she was not annoyed at all.

"Yo, it's only been a year, so urgent!"

The county lord of Deyang thought about it in his heart, the eldest girl of the Zhang family and the second lang of the Jiang family must have made a kiss, is this matter the Jiang family in a hurry, or the Zhang family is in a hurry?

"It's not that my brother is in a hurry, my mother also misses the second brother, so take advantage of this to let him go to Beijing."

"That's right, your family is in Beijing, only you, the second brother, serve the old lady in your hometown, and as a parent, on the one hand, filial piety, on the other hand, is the concern of caring for your children, and it is also contradictory and concerned to think about it."

"Exactly. My grandmother is reluctant to go to Beijing, and my eldest brother is an official in Beijing, so I can only work more for my second brother. ”

"What a good girl with a distressed heart. Your future sister-in-law is sitting over there, go ahead. The county lord of Deyang pointed to the flower shed, and saw a few girls sitting together chatting, who else was not Zhang Yuan on the far right?

The third mother of the Jiang family did not twist, blessed the county lord of Deyang, and took the girls to the flower shed.

"County Lord, someone has come from the Xinguo Mansion, Old Taijun Qiu has already set off, and he will arrive immediately."

"Yo, your guest is coming! Ladies and gentlemen, I'll stay with you for a while, and I'll come when I go. ”

"Old Mrs. Qiu is coming? That's a great guest! ”

"Your Royal Highness, can I go with you?" The eldest girl of the Zhang family stood up and stepped forward.

"Yes, this is your family's in-laws, according to the etiquette, you have to call your aunt's grandmother, okay, let's go together." The county lord of Deyang nodded, and walked away with Zhang Yuan surrounded by the girl's mother-in-law.

"Old Mrs. Qiu is coming?" A thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl said strangely: "Doesn't it mean that this old lady rarely goes out, and in recent years, he has even reported illness at the palace banquet?" ”

"It was a few years ago, when Lao Guogong Li went, the old lady was sad and sick, and the mother was compassionate, so she was exempted from entering the palace to ask for peace. In the past few years, the old lady has become healthy, and sometimes she has gone out to walk around. Sun Yanni is the daughter of the squire of the Ministry of War, and her father is the subordinate of Li Mao, the Duke of Xinguo, and the two families also moved, so they informed the "official news" of the Xinguo Mansion.

"Mrs. Qiu is a very funny person, and the sisters will know it when they see it.

"Hey, Yan Niang, have you seen Mrs. Qiu?" The girl from the Zhao family, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, spoke up with interest, "Could it be that you have been to the Xinguo Mansion?" ”

"Nope." Yan Niang shook her head, "I met Mrs. Qiu last time I went out in Qingming, my mother invited her to sit in the tent, and she also gave me a unicorn hairpin." It's a pity that my mother has to wait for me to wear it. "Yan Niang is the youngest of these people, she is straightforward and not squeamish, so although she is young, everyone likes to take her to play.

"Even if you wear a hairpin, it will fall off!"

"Don't take such a bully!"

"The county lord has never invited the female dependents of the Xinguo Mansion, what is the ...... this time?"

"I heard that the only son of the county lord entered the palace to be the companion of the eldest prince, and the eldest grandson of the prince of Xinguo also became the companion of the eldest prince, and now both of them are accompanying the eldest prince in the Shangyang Palace, I think the county lord is also for this reason......"

"The eldest grandson of the Xinguo family...... "A few girls couldn't help but look over at the flower shed.

There, the girls of the Jiang family, the Lu family, who were born in the Jiangnan clan, the Liu family, who were born in the Nanyang clan, and several other big clans gathered there, and in addition, only the daughters of the clan could join that circle. Only there is a gathering place for the top ladies in the capital.

The eldest grandson of the Xinguo family is engaged to Lu Jun, the daughter of the Lu family.

Several people looked at Miss Lu who was chatting with her girlfriend with complicated expressions, Lu Jun is only twelve years old this year, and she is already slim, and the tenderness of the Jiangnan woman made of water is vividly expressed in her. I don't know how the Lu family was raised, she looks very ordinary, she does it differently from others, which makes people feel indescribably comfortable.

Maybe this is the difference between the world and the ordinary people?

A few girls thought with gusto: 'What's the use of having a good background and good looks, and if you set such a marriage, it is really a low marriage.' The fatherless and motherless, I heard that the aunt was still unkind, and she married or left the house with her husband and lived a vulgar life; Either send someone to suffer under the fence, and then look at the eyes of your younger siblings in the future. Let her be as good as she can at home, and that's it for the rest of the day. ’

If you can't get the position of the national prince, even if you get a background, how high can you be?

Thinking about it like this, they seemed to think that Lu Jun was not so envious, and turned their heads to chat with the girls of the same family in the flower gallery again.

Although the lord of Deyang had only one child, her brother was instigated by the king of Qiyang to rebel together, and in addition to himself being imprisoned, there was also a family member who was later sent to Beijing. After the defeat of the younger brother of the lord of Deyang, his wife committed suicide in the mansion, leaving this young concubine. The emperor couldn't bear to confine his little granddaughter with the adults at a young age, so he gave the girl to the county lord to raise.

When she reached the age of eight, her status was really embarrassing, and she was afraid that she would not even be able to find relatives in the future, so the emperor gave her the title of a county lord and enjoyed the food, the county lord with the title of "Wanning", is also more than ten years old this year.

Although the county lord of Wanning is not the biological son of the county lord of Deyang, the county lord treats her no different from his own child. The little girl is open-minded, and her identity is embarrassing, but under the influence of her uncle, she has a lovely temperament, and she has not changed at all Yin and Yang, which is also a blessing.

Now the county lord of Wanning was sitting with Lu Jun, and when he saw Liu Pei and Jiang Qingling talking, he didn't look at this side, so he leaned over and whispered with a worried face: "Sister Lu, I don't think it's good for you to do this." Your marriage with the eldest son of the Li family is a matchmaker made by my imperial grandfather, and the agreement made by the two parents is that it would be fine if you could withdraw from your relationship, but if you couldn't retreat, if you did this, even the way out was blocked. How will you see his family in the future? ”

Lu Jun has seen his parents sigh for a long time since he was a child, for his own marriage, his father couldn't stand up, and the position of patriarch was also lost. Now her brother refuses to go out, and she travels all day long to visit relatives and friends, her father and mother don't care, and her younger brothers and sisters are young, if she marries a fatherless, motherless, and white body, maybe the marriage of several sisters in her family will also be affected.

"It's not that my family is snobbish, you also know how many changes happened in my family when this marriage was decided. Now my brother you also know the Dao, you are about to become a prodigal, my brother still doesn't know how long it will take to become a prodigal, I ......"

"I don't think it's good. The future is a thing, if a man likes it, he should earn it, what is it to sell his daughter? "The county lord of Wanning lives in the county lord's mansion where the county lord of Deyang is respected, and his thoughts are not as complicated as Lu Jun's.

She has a simple personality, and she can't understand what this sister in the boudoir is worried about the bigger she is, the more she worries about it, obviously she is the same age as her, but all she thinks about is the honor and disgrace of the family all day long.

She really didn't want to see Lu Jun go to Old Taijun Qiu, so she had to continue to persuade: "What's more, I don't think your father and mother in your family are such people, although Uncle Lu seems to be dissatisfied with your marriage, he has not raised objections in public, and he is not disgusted when he thinks about it." ”

"What's more, you haven't seen the eldest son of the Li family, maybe he's a good person? Haven't you been telling the story of him saving his uncle thousands of miles in the past few months? ”

She and the girl from the Lu family met at the age of seven, and now they have been in contact for five years, so naturally they know that the Lu family is not satisfied with this marriage, but they are helpless. Although Yunyun did not raise any objections, they were all to persuade Lu Jun. She has been a beauty embryo since she was a child, her heart is also high, and she is full of poetry and books, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the people who come and go at home are either family members or Hongru, so she naturally looks down on the Li family who was still farming three generations ago.

She listened to some of her complaints on weekdays, and naturally understood some of her thoughts. But now she said that she wanted to talk to the old lady Qiu to see if she could withdraw from this family business, even if the man's family retreated first......

It's a bit overwhelming.

That's her imperial grandfather's matchmaker, the founding emperor of Dachu! The sister of the Lu family usually has some complaints, but now that she wants to withdraw from her family, doesn't it mean that her imperial grandfather is stupid and has decided to marry?

Besides, how could a girl's family run to talk about her marriage? Uncle Lu is a weird person, the son he taught is strange, and now even the sister of the Lu family has become weird.

The county lord of Wanning actually has some thoughts in his heart that he has not said.

She felt that the eldest son of the Li family was originally the eldest grandson, and he would inherit the mansion in the future, but within a few years, his father, mother, and grandfather all died, and his uncle became the lord, and the world was turned upside down for a while......

If even this marriage is withdrawn, how can he deal with himself?

It's a bit too miserable.

She didn't say it in her mouth, but in her heart she felt that this sister was a little down.

Lu Jun was born precocious, her brother was prodigal at home, and there was a younger brother below, his father had been in charge of the academy for so many years and had not been promoted, so she could naturally feel the depression under her father's indifference to fame and fortune. I don't know when, she gradually became sad about the consequences of her marriage to the family, and she couldn't wait to let her father not be embarrassed if she died.

This time, when she heard that her good sister came to persuade her again, she was really upset in her heart, and she didn't know which tendon was wrong, so the ghost came out of nowhere: "Why do you always speak for that person?" Isn't there still a grudge between his family and yours? ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she knew that it was not good, and it was really rude to say this.

This county lord of Wanning is from a serious clan, but he has such embarrassing parents, if it weren't for the pity of the former emperor and the current emperor, she should still be confined in the palace like her brothers.

She was sprinkling salt on Manning's wounds.

Sure enough, as soon as Lu Jun's words fell, Wan Ning's face collapsed.

"I have tried to persuade you, but you have stabbed me with other words. My father did something wrong, leaving the people of the fiefdom without food and clothing, and Da Chu almost fell apart, and he himself regrets it very much now. Li Guogong was just ordered to levy, not to mention that my family is still alive and well, even if it is ......"

Although Wan Ning grew up next to the lord of Deyang, the emperor and empress did not restrict her to meet her biological father. Although his father was not free in the palace, the emperor did not abuse him harshly, and his father was a good scholar and occasionally went to give lessons to the princes.

She gritted her teeth with a straight face and said:

"I want to hate and hate the King of Qiyang, and I hate what the Duke of Xinguo Mansion does!"

Wan Ning was really angry at the unintentional words of this handkerchief, and it was precisely because they were unintentional words that she could see more and more that this was her heartfelt words. The Deyang County Lord's Mansion and the Xinguo Mansion have been stiff for so many years, but her aunt and her father don't complain about Old Duke Li, but they can't get down on face.

His father was ambitious and did something wrong, and now he is punished, so why keep saying hateful words?

When I said it, I thought that their family had a grudge against today!

The more Wan Ning thought about it, the more angry he became, and he felt that this friend was getting older and his temper was getting more and more eccentric, obviously he was born and educated, why did he become more and more like those laymen who were seeking fame and fortune?

It seems that there will be less contact in the future, saying that it is a family family, and there are not as many sisters as the noble family.

Wan Ning had a straight temperament, she felt uncomfortable and couldn't vent it, she stood up and said to the left and right, "I'm anxious", and regardless of Lu Jun's intention to get up and keep her, she left with the girls.

Lu Jun was ashamed and ashamed. She said that there was no malice in her words, but she just felt that Wan Ning always said that she was not good here and there, and she was obviously a good sister, but she spoke for the Li family, and her temper came up for a while.

On weekdays, Wan Ning has to be angry, and she has to lie to her, but she has never turned her face, why did she say a little wrong, and she ran away!

"How did Wanning go?" Liu Pei stretched her neck to look at it and asked. She is the niece of Concubine Liu Xian, and her family is also a Nanyang family, she is considered a national relative, and she has a general relationship with Wanning, but because of the lord of Deyang, she is also diligent in running.

"She's in a hurry." At this time, Lu Jun was a little grateful to this sister for finding a reason for not really letting her get off the stage.

She is a guest at someone else's house, if she makes the host's young lady angry and leaves, these girls will definitely deny her behind their backs if they don't say anything.

Liu Pei nodded clearly.

"This Wanning, he is always so in a hurry!"

While they were talking, there was a singer at the gate of the garden who said that Mrs. Qiu had arrived at the gate of the garden, and someone came in to say that Mrs. Qiu would be there.

Now the girls can't sit anymore, and no one here is of a higher grade than Mrs. Qiu. The girls in the flower shed and under the flower gallery stopped chatting and looked towards the entrance.

The ladies and grandmothers who chatted or walked in the flower hall and admired the laurels in Fangfei Garden also came over, and also summoned their own girls to their side.

Lu Jun and Liu Pei bowed their heads slightly, got up and went to the sister-in-law who came out of the flower hall, Liu Pei came with her eldest aunt, and was also called back. Most of the girls under the flower gallery came with their mothers, and they all dispersed at once.

At this time, I can see how important the female elders are if there are girls in the family, if the female elders in the family don't come out, like this kind of serious banquet, even if they make a post, they are embarrassed to come alone.

After a while, the county lord of Deyang walked in with an old woman about sixty years old. Zhang Yuan, who went out to greet her, followed closely beside the old woman, looking ready to help at any time.

This old woman is in good spirits, and she walks steadily and neatly, and she doesn't need to be helped at all.

The ladies and grandmothers who had never seen Mrs. Qiu looked at this old lady, and they saw that her hair was a little gray, and although there were wrinkles on her face, she kept smiling, and even the wrinkles looked a little stretched.

She was wearing a turmeric twig embroidered collar underneath, a jade red gold flowered gown on the outside, and an embroidered pleated skirt with dark green satin moire covering the knees. The eyes are very sharp, and at a glance, you can see that the old lady is not a common material.

Gu Qing was afraid of trouble, and she was impatient to wear a bunch of gold and silver, so there was no complicated headdress on her head, and the few things that Mama Hua chose for her were not vulgar things, because in the eyes of others, Qiu Lao Taijun's whole person looked refreshing, but she was very graceful and atmospheric.

The county lord of Deyang went out to greet him as soon as he heard that Old Taijun Qiu was coming. Mrs. Qiu is a super-grade princess, the same prince, she is here, and it is not out of place for the county lord's mansion to open the door to greet her. She and Zhang Yuan walked to the door, only to see a vermilion lacquer carriage slowly coming from the fangkou, followed by a few ordinary carriages with the seal of the Guogong Mansion, and they knew that it was Mrs. Qiu who had arrived.

The vermilion lacquer carriage is the standard of a first-class official.

"Old lady, I finally looked forward to you!"

"Mrs. Tai, Yuan Niang has saluted you."

Gu Qing walked all the way, and the smile on his face couldn't stop.

She laughed not because she was happy, but because the garden looked too much like the park of the future. On the way, she also saw a mushroom-shaped pavilion, and stood there and looked at it for a long time, thinking that she had crossed again. The lord of Deyang County was surprised when he saw her, and hurriedly explained, saying that her husband was witty by nature, so the pavilion and other buildings at home were a little "different".

It's not just different! It's so nostalgic, okay!

Although it is made of wood and masonry, not cement, the ancients made a mushroom-shaped pavilion with white spots on a red background, can you imagine?

No wonder the ladies here love to run to her house, it's so curious!

Not to mention that she also saw swings, canopy boats, and a promenade dedicated to fishing.

If it weren't for the antiquity in this house, she would have thought it was really in a civic park!

Gu Qing couldn't wait to see what the legendary "Fangfei Garden" looked like.

Now it's the day of May, many flowers in Fangfei Garden have bloomed, Gu Qing thought that this "osmanthus feast" was just looking for a reason to open a flower party, after all, she had heard "August osmanthus flowers blooming everywhere" since she was a child, but before she arrived at Tianxiang Garden, she had already smelled the fragrance of osmanthus flowers.

"Why did the osmanthus of the county lord's family bloom so early?"

The lord of Deyang County was generally surprised when he saw that Qiu Lao Taijun and the others were generally surprised, and praised his husband with a smile:

"This is a different species that my husband got from the south, our family only raises five plants, which bloom in May and June every year, and the flowering period is long, it is his treasure!"

Yo, the county lord's husband seems to be a gardener!

Gu Qing smelled the fragrant cinnamon, turned a few flower gates, stepped on the flower path specially paved with pebbles in the style of "Ruyi", and finally arrived at Tianxiang Garden.

There were many people shuttling in and out of the garden, and when they saw them coming, they hurriedly avoided them.

Gu Qing was a little nervous in her heart, except for the big banquet in the palace, she had never been a guest at someone else's house so seriously.

She is all picked up by Mama Hua today, and she thinks that the color matching style looks comfortable, neither serious nor dignified, and it should not be ashamed.

Doing a good job in psychological construction, Gu Qing imagined the kind smiles of the leaders in the news in his mind, took a deep breath, and stepped into the Tianxiang Garden where the flower hall was located.

Tianxiang Garden is very large, in addition to the flower hall on the east side, there are man-made flowing water, flower sheds, flower galleries, rockeries, etc., and the novelty buildings seen from time to time outside, here is indeed antique, the charm is extremely beautiful, and the many ancient ladies standing in it make Gu Qing suddenly seem to run to a certain costume beauty pageant venue.

The singer at the door shouted:

"Old Taijun Qiu of the Xinguo Mansion ~ arrived!"

Then, Gu Qing saw so many gorgeously dressed and graceful women saluting one after another in her direction and blessed.

"Old Taijun Qiu, Wanfu Jin'an."

Gu Qing's vanity exploded all of a sudden.

The beauties lined up in a pile to salute her, it's really cool to be home!

Gu Qing couldn't do anything at all, and Old Taijun didn't like to go out to socialize.

She can't wait to start hooking up!

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After a while, the county lord of Deyang walked in with an old woman about sixty years old. Zhang Yuan, who went out to greet her, followed closely beside the old woman, looking ready to help at any time.

Gu Qing: Hey, hey, my body is now fifty-eight! Fifty-eight!