Chapter 162: Take a look
"What happened?" Ran Qiu Nian followed the prestige, and from the carriage, he could only see the crowd in front of him crowding together, and then inside, he couldn't tell the difference.
"Sounds like an argument?"
Lin Hanshan is interested, she likes to join in the fun the most, which is in line with Ran Qiunian, both of them like to be lively, but when they encounter the excitement, they naturally can't help but take a look.
"Go and ask, what's going on up ahead?"
Lin Hanshan instructed, and the man responded and quickly rushed back: "Miss Hui's words, there was a dispute at the fireworks festival in the capital a few days later, and there was a vendor selling fireworks, the goods were damp, but they continued to sell shoddy, and they were being questioned by the buyer who found them." ”
"Fireworks extravaganza? What is it? ”
Ran Qiunian asked curiously, and Lin Hanshan turned her head to explain to her.
"My sister just came to the capital not long ago, naturally I don't know, this fireworks festival is every year, just the night before the beginning of winter, in order to celebrate the transition from autumn to winter, to pray to the sky for next year's wind and rain, grain harvest event."
Lin Hanshan said, with a bit of yearning in her eyes: "At that time, fireworks will be all over the city, even if you don't go to the street, only at home, you can see the fireworks in the sky, like the morning glow." ”
"If there is such a grand event, then I am really blessed with eyes." Ran Qiunian was also said to have moved his mind.
The two of them planned to go directly to the Lin Mansion to find Lin Yanyu, the eldest lady of the Lin family, but when they met a fireworks dealer on the way, they stopped the carriage and deliberately went to the shops along the street to select a few fireworks.
When I walked back, the crowd in the originally noisy place had almost dispersed, maybe it had been properly resolved, Lin Hanshan and Ran Qiunian didn't care much about it, and they couldn't put it down and looked at the fireworks they bought.
"Why can't you just set off fireworks on weekdays? I can't wait, and if it weren't for the Holy Order, I'd have wanted to set off these fireworks tonight. ”
Lin Hanshan sighed regretfully, although there is no curfew in the capital, there is a ban, that is, on the night of the non-fireworks event, fireworks are not allowed in the city, and even fireworks dealers are not allowed to appear.
Except for the first few days of the event, it is impossible to buy a palm-sized firework on weekdays.
"And such a ban? It's funny. Ran Qiunian couldn't help but sigh.
The two laughed and returned to the carriage and continued to rush to the Lin Mansion. After their carriage left, several big men who had gathered around the fireworks dealer looked at each other silently.
Then, I saw two people walk out, silently followed the carriage of Ran Qiunian and Lin Hanshan, and saw their carriage enter the Lin Mansion, one stayed and continued to star, while the other quietly returned the same way and reported the news to the remaining brothers.
Ran Qiunian was brought into the Lin Mansion by Lin Hanshan, this was the first time she came to the Lin family, and the master of the Lin family entered the palace, so Ran Qiunian only saw Mrs. Lin.
As Lin Hanshan said, Mrs. Lin likes Ran Qiunian very much, and she pulled her for a while, but Lin Hanshan still has a way.
She put her arm around Mrs. Lin's shoulders and said coquettishly: "Mother, if you don't let people go again, it will be dark in a blink of an eye, and we still want to talk to my sister." ”
"Okay, you guys go over here, Yan Yu is embroidering a wedding dress for herself on her embroidery floor, this child has indeed been a little bored recently, you can talk to her and relieve her boredom."
Mrs. Lin has a gentle temperament, and she also eats Lin Hanshan's coquettish set the most. And Lin Yanyu has a calm temperament and will never make this little daughter's delicate appearance, but Mrs. Lin is most worried about her, for fear that she will hide anything in her heart and refuse to say it.
Lin Hanshan took Ran Qiunian to the embroidery building at the back, and after pushing the door open, she saw Lin Yanyu holding a threaded embroidery needle in her hand, looking at it in a daze, like a puppet, without even blinking her eyes.
"Sister, what are you thinking, so distracted? I didn't even hear us push the door. ”
Lin Hanshan looked at Lin Yanyu in surprise, pulled Ran Qiunian and walked in directly, and sat down beside her.
Lin Yanyu came back to his senses, put down the embroidery needle, turned his head to look at the person who came, and saw that it was Ran Qiunian and Lin Hanshan, the sorrow in his eyebrows and eyes dissipated, and he evoked a light smile:
"Sister Nian'er, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you are getting more and more out of place. Pretty. You two, why did you suddenly think about coming to me today? ”
Although Lin Yanyu covered it up well, Ran Qiunian could still see that she was not happy from the bottom of her heart, as if she had something on her mind.
"Participating in the poetry meeting today, Liu Yunyao recruited He Qiongying from nowhere, holding a handkerchief and saying that it was given to him by Nian'er, and wanted to rely on Nian'er, but we blocked it back, and made a big fuss. It's really boring, I'll bring Nian'er to you to relieve your boredom. ”
Lin Hanshan told Lin Yanyu everything that happened at the poetry meeting in a few words, thinking that she would get Lin Yanyu's evaluation and echo, just like in the past.
Who knew that after Lin Yanyu heard this, he sighed faintly: "He Qiongying is not a good person, fortunately, Sister Nian'er got rid of this person, otherwise she would have fallen into the fire pit." ”
"Sister, you're so strange today, no, it seems that since you got engaged, you've become more and more weird." Lin Hanshan looked at Lin Yanyu suspiciously.
Ran Qiunian asked thoughtfully, "I still don't know which family's son Sister Yanyu is married to?" ”
"It's the eye of today's list, Guan Gongzi Guan Xiu from the hairpin family in Shuzhong."
Lin Yanyu said softly, his hand unconsciously stroked the almost embroidered dragon and phoenix pattern, and his mood was a little complicated.
"Pipe repair? Is it him? Ran Qiunian was a little surprised.
"What, do you know Guan Xiu?" When Lin Hanshan saw Ran Qiunian say this, she suddenly became interested, and hurriedly took Ran Qiunian's hand and asked out loud, Lin Yanyu also looked at Ran Qiunian with an inquiry in her eyes.
"It's not an acquaintance. This person is Brother Yin's colleague, the two are fellow scholars, and they have a good personal relationship, I occasionally see him come to the house to find Brother Yin a few times, but he has not spoken to him, but he should be a good person. ”
Ran Qiunian told the truth, and when she saw that Lin Yanyu was fascinated by what she heard, she couldn't help but continue to ask: "I wonder if Sister Yanyu has ever seen Guan Xiu?" ”
Lin Yanyu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Since ancient times, major marriage events have been the orders of parents, and the words of matchmakers. The wedding date has been set, how can I meet with Mr. Guan in private before the church? ”
Ran Qiunian consciously found the crux of the problem, it turned out that Lin Yanyu was about to marry a stranger who didn't know the details at all, so she felt a little dazed and uneasy, and she couldn't help but feel a little distressed.
"What's so hard about that? If my sister is curious, we can take a look at it from a distance, and we don't let him know or let my father know, it won't be considered a broken rule. ”
Lin Hanshan had the most ghost ideas, and immediately made a decision, Ran Qiunian also felt that this method was good, and couldn't help but look at Lin Yanyu with Lin Hanshan expectantly.
If it was Lin Yanyu's temperament, she would naturally not agree to such a shocking thing, but she was really curious, so she couldn't help nodding.
Ran Qiunian and Lin Hanshan glanced at each other, took Lin Yanyu's hand, and said with a smile:
"It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, it just so happened that Brother Yin and Guan Xiu Gongzi were on an errand together today, near Xishi Street. Let's find an excuse and go out into the street, and I want to lure them over, so you hide in the shadows and sneak a peek with Sister Hanshan. ”
Lin Hanshan echoed: "Put on a hood, no one will recognize you, even if someone finds out, it will only be a coincidence, let's go and go back quickly, take a look and leave." ”
After Lin Yanyu made up her mind, she no longer hesitated, got up and took a hood from the platform, put it on her head, and covered her face tightly, so she went out of the embroidery building with Ran Qiunian and Lin Hanshan.
"Where are you going, and why are you in such a hurry?"
Mrs. Lin was about to come over to see the three sisters, when she saw Ran Qiunian and Lin Hanshan wearing Lin Yanyu who hid her face with a hood, and the four of them met each other on the porch.
"Mother, the color of my sister's embroidery thread in her wedding dress is missing, and we are preparing to go to the embroidery shop on Xishi Street together to buy some new ones."
Lin Hanshan rolled her eyes, leaned up and grabbed Mrs. Lin's shoulders, and said in a soft voice.
"If you are missing any embroidery thread, just order your subordinates to procure it, why do you need to run it yourself?"
Mrs. Lin was coaxed by Lin Hanshan to soften her face and looked at her funny.
"After all, it is a wedding dress embroidered by herself, how can the embroidery threads selected by the next person be the one that my sister personally selected? Just let my sister go out with us by the way, she has been bored in the embroidery building for many days. ”
Sure enough, as soon as Lin Hanshan said this, Mrs. Lin didn't say anything to stop her, and with a wave of her hand, she let the three of them go.
"Go early and return early, the New Year is approaching, a lot of people have poured into the capital recently, and I am afraid that it will not be safe on the street in the evening, so bring a few more guards and be careful."
Mrs. Lin admonished two sentences, and looked at the three sisters who couldn't be stopped like birds out of the cage like a little bird, so she could only ask the housekeeper to send them a few more guards to follow.
The three of them came out of the Lin Mansion and went all the way to Xishi Street, and the big man who was guarding outside continued to follow after confirming that it was the Lin family sisters sitting in the car.
"How? Can you see where they are going? ”
A few more big men came from behind, and as soon as they discussed with each other, they came up with the destination of Xishi Street, and they sped up their pace to catch up.
Ran Qiunian and the Lin sisters took the carriage and soon arrived on Xishi Street, got off the carriage, and took the Lin sisters to an embroidery workshop.
"This is the best embroidery workshop on Xishi Street, you can take a look here first, you have to do a full set of plays, and you can't go back empty-handed."
After Ran Qiunian finished saying this, he turned his head to look behind him, and was looking at a big man on the opposite street. Ran Qiu was stunned for a moment, and the big man lowered his head even more.
"What's wrong?" Lin Hanshan walked to Ran Qiunian's side strangely and stood still, raised her eyes and looked at her, but found nothing, "What are you looking at?" ”
"It's nothing, maybe I'm wrong." Ran Qiunian frowned, shook his head, and suppressed the uneasiness in his heart.
"Brother Yin, they are investigating the case in the silver building across the street, I will go over and call them in a while, you are waiting on this floor, don't leave the guards too far."