Chapter 3: Cruise Poetry Club
On the second day, Jiang Yingxue held a book of poetry and watched her embroidery in Xia Anran's room, and the little peach in her ear chattered endlessly about Jiang Hai's punishment of Jiang Yingyue.
Xia Anran squeezed the hand of the silver needle for a moment, raised her eyes to look at Jiang Yingxue who was staring at her in a daze, and said, "Xue'er, mother ......"
"Mother, don't care about this, my daughter really doesn't care, my father will do this, it's also my expectation, after all, there is a grandmother over there to help Jiang Yingyue, it doesn't matter, now my daughter just hopes that your mother can be safe, healthy, and live a long life."
Jiang Yingxue knew what she wanted to say as soon as she saw Xia Anran's expression, but what Jiang Yingxue said was all in her heart at the moment, for her who had experienced a family breakdown, these backyard house fights were really insignificant.
When Xia Anran heard this, she nodded with satisfaction and said, "She really deserves to be a good daughter of her mother!" ”
After finishing speaking, seeing that Jiang Yingxue was still holding this poetry scripture and didn't read it, she patronized her embroidery and said: "In two days, it will be the poetry meeting held by the Prime Minister's wife, why don't you hurry up and hold the Buddha's feet steady?" Patronizing and looking at my embroidery, can you see a poem? ”
Jiang Yingxue lowered her head and laughed when she heard this: "Don't worry, the prime minister's wife personally sent me a post, I must prepare well." You can't lose your mother's face, can you? ”
After speaking, the two mothers and daughters pinched their handkerchiefs to hide their faces and laughed.
The day of the Lake Poetry Meeting was a sunny day, Jiang Yingxue changed into a white saro skirt embroidered with silver silk specially prepared for her by Xia Anran, which was incredibly beautiful.
Liu Qingfeng stood in front of the set carriage early and waited for her, and was stunned for a moment when she saw Jiang Yingxue coming out of the gate. It wasn't until Jiang Yingxue walked up to him and waved her hand that she came back to her senses.
"What's wrong? Look silly? Jiang Yingxue tilted her head and smiled, and Furong smiled beautifully.
Liu Qingfeng's face turned red, and he hurriedly turned around and opened the curtain of the carriage and said, "Miss, please get in the car and watch your steps carefully." ”
Jiang Yingxue saw him look ashamed, smiled and passed by him, and her heart suddenly became happy.
Jiang Yingxue sat in the car with the maid Xiaotao, and Liu Qingfeng rode a horse and followed the carriage to escort her. Halfway through, Liu Qingfeng suddenly knocked on the window from the outside.
Xiao Tao lifted the curtain and asked, "Lord Guard, is there something wrong?" ”
"There's a carriage following us behind, like the frame of the second lady, do you need to go over and drive them away?" Liu Qingfeng asked in a low voice.
As far as he knew, half of this kind of large-scale official ladies' gatherings, the concubines would not be invited. And Jiang Yingyue's sneaking after her completely confirmed Liu Qingfeng's conjecture that Jiang Yingyue was not in the invited post.
"No, let her follow." Jiang Yingxue's soft and glutinous voice came out of the curtain.
Liu Qingfeng's heart moved, but fortunately, thanks to his reflexes from practicing martial arts for many years, he didn't make a fool of himself again, and he responded almost reflexively: "Yes." ”
The carriage staggered for about half an hour and arrived at Nachen Lake by the Anhe Bridge, where a gorgeously decorated boat was parked, and there were already young masters and ladies of the official family talking in pairs on the boat.
And there is an entrance on the side of the Anhe Bridge, which is guarded by a number of soldiers, and everyone who gets on the boat must show the post of the Prime Minister's wife.
As soon as Jiang Yingxue and her party got on the boat, there was a noisy noise behind them. Jiang Yingxue turned around, hooked her lips with a dignified smile, and pretended not to know what was going on to look at the entrance.
I saw Jiang Yingyue with a few small maids and maids arrogantly entangled with the soldiers at the entrance, and they were about to break into the boat.
"Why don't you let me in? Do you know who I am! How dare you stop me? Do you know who my father is! Jiang Yingyue opened her throat and shouted, and the people on and off the boat stopped to watch the excitement.
"I'm sorry, we don't recognize your people, we only recognize posts, no posts, can't get on the boat." The soldier grimaced with disdain.
"Blind your dog's eye! I'm the young lady of the Jiang family! It's my sister who just went in! Jiang Yingyue raised her face and shouted at Jiang Yingxue on the boat with her throat.
"What a shameless girl, Miss Jiang is what you can pretend to be? That's the top beauty in the capital, everyone is beautiful, how can there be such a rude and rude sister as you? The soldier scoffed.
"Cheap minions! See if I don't tear your mouth! Hold him down for me! ”
Jiang Yingyue was so angry that she instructed the little girl she was carrying to beat someone, but she was easily beaten to the ground by the soldiers, and she shouted angrily at the entrance.
This shout alarmed the prime minister's wife on the ship, and the prime minister's wife walked two steps forward with her dignified hair in a bun and asked, "Who is presumptuous here?" ”
Seeing this, Jiang Yingxue knew that it was not good to watch the excitement again, so she stepped forward with a guilty face and whispered, "I'm sorry, madam, that's ...... My sister, it was Yingxue who didn't set an example for her eldest sister, didn't teach her well, and let her be presumptuous here, if Mrs. wants to blame Yingxue, please don't be angry with my sister. ”
"Oh? Is it your sister? But I heard that Mrs. Xia only has one daughter. ”
Although the prime minister's wife was a little confused, Jiang Yingxue was gentle and upright, and her appearance of advancing and retreating in a measured manner had always been deeply liked by her, so she was extremely kind and patient when facing Jiang Yingxue.
When Jiang Yingxue heard this, her head hung lower, and she whispered with shame on her face: "Ah...... That's the ...... of the aunt in the house."
Although her voice was very low, it also clearly reached the ears of everyone present, including Jiang Yingyue, who was waiting for Jiang Yingxue at the entrance to help her get on the boat.
"Yo, it turned out to be a concubine, no wonder she is so uneducated."
"That's it, look at the bearing of the eldest daughter of the family, and then look at her, it's hard to get into the hall of elegance!"
"A concubine is a concubine, bad luck!"
The people watching the excitement pointed at Jiang Yingyue one after another, Jiang Yingyue had suffered such humiliation, and for a while she just wanted to bite all the people who despised her and swallow them!
"I'm sorry everyone.,It's Yingxue who didn't do what my sister should do.,If I knew that my sister was also interested in poetry.,I'm bound to give the only worship post to my sister.,It's just that I see that she doesn't like to read and practice calligraphy on weekdays.,I thought she wasn't interested...... Now that my sister is here, can you please make it easier for her to come in and see what she knows? ”
Jiang Yingxue bent down and saluted, lowered her eyebrows, and said earnestly.
Although the prime minister's wife didn't want to see Jiang Yingyue, she liked Jiang Yingxue in the end, and she couldn't see her so aggrieved, so she let Jiang Yingyue come in with a wave of her hand.
"Thank you, ma'am, and thank you for your leniency. If you don't mind, Yingxue is here to write a poem as a thank you, okay? Jiang Yingxue raised her eyes and chuckled.
"I can't ask for it!" Everyone present cheered.
Jiang Yingxue groaned slightly, and improvised a poem, which combined the beautiful scenery by the river and the kindness of the people on the boat, and euphemistically praised the magnanimity of the prime minister's wife.
After reading a poem, the people on the boat applauded.
After Jiang Yingxue humbly thanked her, she was surrounded by everyone and kept asking for opinions on poetry.
Liu Qingfeng had been standing not far behind Jiang Yingxue and looking at her, and the way she wrote poems surprised him again.
But after being amazed, Liu Qingfeng fell into loneliness again, why would such a talented and beautiful woman be a member of the Jiang family?