Chapter 11: Hooking
Xu Yipeng threw the reins to Zhili: "Mama, I have already received the second sister!" β
At this time, Xu Fujia, the daughter-in-law who followed Mama Qin, had already stepped forward and put the footstool in front of the carriage, and another daughter-in-law, Xu Caijia, helped Xu Cancan get out of the carriage.
Mama Qin greeted her with a spring breeze on her face, and said goodbye: "Say hello to the second girl!" β
Her somewhat bloated body hadn't squatted down yet, Xu Cancan had already taken her hand and helped her up, and said with a smile: "Where do you dare to work grandma!" β
In the years when Xu Tinghe first got married, Mrs. Xu was still living with the second Xu Shunhe in Wanzhou, and the eldest lady Xu Han had to take her eldest son Xu Yipeng and eldest daughter Xu Yilian to the old house of the Xu family in Luhe Town every year to wait for Mrs. Xu.
Mama Qin looked at Xu Cancan with a smile, and praised again and again: "Oh, I haven't seen it for a few years, the second girl is so good-looking now, it's like a fairy in the sky......"
"Mama, grandmother and mother should be waiting!" Xu Yipeng saw Mama Qin talking while constantly stroking Xu Cancan's white and tender little fat hand with her withered black hand, and couldn't help but open her mouth to relieve Xu Cancan.
Xu Cancan was touched by Mama Qin's damp hand for a long time, and his heart was also a little tired, and when he heard that Xu Yipeng had relieved himself, he was grateful and glanced at Xu Yipeng.
Xu Yipeng saw his cousin looking at him, with a smile in his eyes, and his heart was strangely beautiful, and he winked at Xu Cancan. Xu Yipeng stopped halfway through the blink of his eyes - what am I doing today? How can you be so disrespectful?
Xu Yipeng took Zhili to his residence in the front yard.
Although the sky was not dark, the two daughters-in-law still carried lanterns to illuminate the way, and Mama Qin led Xu Cancan to enter through the corner gate.
Although Xu Tinghe, the head of the Xu family, is a servant of the second grade, he is not a big man in Bianjing, where the powerful are everywhere, and he has no foundation, and now he lives in the Wujin house where his wife Xu Han was married.
Xu Cancan followed Mama Qin inward and listened to Mama Qin's introduction with a dignified face.
"This is the main courtyard, where the eldest master meets guests at home, and the son also lives here. We can only enter through the mountain verandah from the east! β
The group walked south along the hand-copying verandah, and soon saw a hanging flower door. Mama Qin introduced: "This is the Qingxin Courtyard where the lady's family lives! β
A short distance ahead, in front of me was a moon gate, and daylilies were planted on both sides of the moon gate. Mama Qin said lightly: "This is the sunset residence where several aunts live. β
Xu Cancan was a little surprised. When Xu Han's family returned to Wanzhou a few years ago, Xu Shunhe didn't have a concubine room, only a room for Meiyu, and he was still Xu Han's dowry maid, but he didn't expect to have a few concubines so soon.
After walking a little further, another hanging flower gate appeared. Looking inward from the verandah, there are many tall, straight trees with lush foliage. Seeing Xu Cancan looking up at those trees, Mama Qin smiled and said, "That's the Lotus Fragrance Courtyard where the third girl, the fourth girl, and the fifth girl live!" β
Xu Cancan was a little surprised, she remembered that her uncle Xu Ting and only one daughter, Xu Yilian, had four girls and five girls?
Mama Qin then explained: "The second girl, the fourth girl is only one month younger than the third girl, and the fifth girl is only two years old this year. β
Xu Cancan calculated the age of the fourth girl in his heart - the third girl Xu Yilian is half a year younger than her, and she is almost fifteen years old this year, and the four girls are only one month younger than Xu Yilian, and they should be a little more than fourteen years old.
In this way, the fourth girl should have been born in the outer room......
As soon as she entered the courtyard before she reached the most important point, Mama Qin introduced with a smile on her face: "In front is the Chunhui Courtyard where the old lady lives!" β
As soon as she finished speaking, a maid with a long figure greeted her, and said with a smile: "The old lady asked the slave maid to welcome the second girl, and the old lady, the eldest lady and several girls are waiting in the hall!" β
Xu Cancan hurriedly said a few polite words and expressed his self-blame, but his eyes had already looked at this maid, and found that she was about fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a red spring shirt and a red pleated skirt, although her figure was good, her facial features were ordinary, but she was just quite upright.
Mama Qin said: "This is Qiaoying next to the old lady!" β
Xu Cancan knew his identity, so he just nodded with a smile and didn't say much.
Qiao Ying was the old lady's maid, and some of them took it big, so she didn't salute Xu Cancan, and directly led Xu Cancan and his party into Chunhui Courtyard.
The yard of Chunhui Courtyard is not very large, but there are six pine trees, so it seems a little narrow. After entering the courtyard, the group walked along the path paved with blue bricks to the center of the courtyard and turned south.
The hall in front was brightly lit, and there were a few maids and women standing outside, and I saw Xu Cancan and others busy going in to report.
As soon as Xu Cancan walked under the eaves of the hall, Xu Hanshi greeted Mrs. Xu, who was on crutches.
Mrs. Xu was dressed very richly, with a white hosta combed on her head, pearl earrings on her ears, and a red brocade embroidered with gold swaska, trembling on crutches to greet her, shouting: "My good granddaughter, grandmother didn't expect to see you in her lifetime!" β
Xu Cancan has been under his grandmother's knees for several years, and he knows that this old lady loves acting, but her acting skills are exaggerated, and she also cooperating delicately into her grandmother's arms at the moment, and shouted softly: "Grandmother-"
These two ancestors and grandsons who were sobbing and showing joy but did not have a trace of tears were persuaded by Xu Han's to leave, and Xu Cancan began to salute.
After giving Mrs. Xu a salute; The old lady seems to have forgotten what to expect.
Xu Cancan gave the eldest lady a salute again.
Xu Hanshi helped Xu Cancan up, looked at it, and found that although her husband's niece was only fifteen years old, she was delicate and beautiful, and she was born with a delicate and beautiful nature, which was simply the favorite type that Emperor Yong'an had insisted on for decades, and she couldn't help but admire the genetics of her husband's family in her heart. She gave birth to a son and a daughter, and her son Xu Yipeng was born like her husband Xu Tinghe, who was very handsome, but he was a man; daughter Xu Yilian is like her, her facial features are very plain, and her appearance is a little ordinary; And Xu Cancan, I'm afraid that he has concentrated the essence of several generations of the Xu family, and some of them are too beautiful.
It seems that her husband's wish can come true, but Xu Cancan looks a little stiff in etiquette, and she has to ask someone to teach her well!
She smiled and helped Xu Cancan up, and saw that Xu Cancan's snow-white wrist was empty, so she took off the jade-inlaid red gold bracelet on her wrist and put it on Xu Cancan's wrist.
Xu Cancan was just about to humbly say thank you, but was stopped by the eldest lady. The eldest lady held her hand and beckoned to the two girls next to her: "Yilian, Yitong, come to see my sister!" β
The two girls walked over, and Xu Hanshi introduced them one by one. She pointed to the girl in red and said, "Cancan, this is your third sister Yilian!" β
Xu Cancan hurriedly smiled and said: "I haven't seen you for several years, but the third sister is getting taller and taller!" β
Xu Yilian is a little taller than Xu Cancan, combing her fallen bun, except for a ruby-inlaid bun, there is nothing else on it, wearing a red spring shirt embroidered with white lotus, and a moon-white pleated skirt, she is actually very good at dressing up, but her complexion is darker, although she has a light layer of powder, she still can't cover it. Her facial features are very similar to Xu Han's, and they are so plain that they are a little understated.
She looked at Xu Cancan with a shy smile on her face: "Sister! β
Xu Yitong, who was wearing a white Luo shirt and colorful skirt, stepped forward and said, "Sister! β
Xu Cancan looked at her and smiled: "My sister is so bright!" β
Although Xu Cancan, the white shirt passed down by Xu Yitong, has never seen it, but from the faintly flickering silver lines on it, he also knows that the Tao is very valuable, not to mention her gorgeous colorful skirt. Xu Yitong looks very gorgeous, with light brown skin, big eyes, thick red lips, pointed chin, high breasts, thin waist and long legs, taller than her two sisters Xu Cancan and Xu Yilian, and she is a bodybuilder beauty.
Xu Yitong was also looking at Xu Cancan.
Xu Cancan is holding a simple bun with a simple butterfly hairpin inlaid with various colored broken gemstones, and a pair of eyes on his small face are dazzling - really beautiful!
However, the body is only a half-worn light green shirt and green skirt, which looks a little shabby.
After the sisters met, Xu Hanshi pulled Xu Yipeng, who had just come over, over: "Cancan, this is your eldest brother Yipeng, you should be familiar along the way!" β
Yi Peng's face was flushed, and he and Xu Cancan greeted each other.
Mrs. Xu has always been stingy, and she didn't plan to give Xu Cancan a meeting gift at all, seeing that Xu Han gave Xu Cancan a very valuable jade-inlaid red gold bracelet, she was very dissatisfied - her mother-in-law hasn't given a meeting gift yet, why are you panicking!
Because she was uncomfortable, she sat on the rosewood couch - this was Xu Han's marriage, and she forced her to come over - with a smile on her face and did not say a word.
Of course, Xu Cancan knew the nature of his grandmother, and immediately stepped forward to sit down next to Mrs. Xu, smiling and coquettishly: "Grandmother, I'm not going anywhere tonight, can I live with my grandmother?" β
Mrs. Xu said repeatedly: "Okay, good! β
The house in Xu's house is narrow, Xu Yilian, Xu Yitong and the five-year-old girl Xu Yilan, who is only two years old, are crowded in the Lianxiang Courtyard with six maids and a wet nurse, which is very inconvenient, but Mrs. Xu occupies the most spacious Chunhui Courtyard but refuses to let her granddaughters live in because she doesn't like to be lively. Now that Mrs. Xu has agreed to let Xu Cancan live in Chunhui Courtyard, Xu Han is really secretly relieved.
Mrs. Xu stroked Xu Cancan's back with a smile on her face, and had her own plans in her heart - the eldest son wanted to send Cancan to the palace to run for election, Cancan was born so well, he is likely to be favored in the future, and he became the grandmother of the emperor's favorite concubine, which is naturally a great benefit......
There was a lot of harmony in the hall, and the family was together and harmonious.
At this time, a maid in a silver-red shirt quietly entered Chunhui Courtyard, took advantage of the excitement to enter the hall, and soon crowded around Mrs. Xu, quietly looked at Xu Cancan, and figured out the master's thoughts in her heart.
Xu Hanshi smiled and said to Xu Cancan: "Cancan, there is only one maid by your side, I'm afraid it's not enough, right?" I'm hereβ"
Mrs. Xu was afraid that her eldest daughter-in-law would have a better relationship with Cancan, who had a bright future, so she hurriedly interrupted Mrs. Xu: "Cancan, since one maid is not enough, I'll put -"
Because she didn't prepare in advance, she had to look around for her goal.
Only Biyun in a silver-red shirt on her side was her person in the hall, and Mrs. Xu was busy saying, "I'll give Biyun to you!" Biyun, I've seen the two sides of Lang! Xu Hanshi smiled silently, and wiped the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief.