(128) Wishful thinking
Children growing up in the palace are precocious and know that many things should be planned early.
Two little girls, of similar age, are interested in nothing more than clothes and makeup, Yun Xiangrong promised Ning Muying that next time if she still has a chance to leave the palace, she will come to Changping Houfu to find herself, and take her to Yunfu to make a few sets of Jiangnan-style dresses.
The two little sisters chatted very well, Cai Jindan was a little surprised when she saw it, obviously the two of them didn't deal with each other three days ago, how could they immediately become sisters today.
A few more people entered the inner hall between the two talking, Yun Xiangrong knew and didn't know, and they knew Qi Huan'er, Zhang Lingli, and Wang Jiaying. There are also five girls that Yun Xiangrong doesn't know.
Zhang Lingli kindly introduced Yun Xiangrong, the princess's style of doing things is very comfortable, and it feels like her sister-in-law is kind enough to help her sister-in-law, which makes people feel intimate and unassuming.
Of the five girls below, Yun Xiangrong actually carried it, but it was just not a real person.
Zhou Wenyin of Dongping Hou Mansion is a concubine, but Mrs. Dongping Hou has no daughter, so she is recorded in her own name.
Zhong Nuan of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, this girl is a little bitter, in recent years, the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion has not given out the favored courtiers of the saint, so the Dingyuan Marquis attaches great importance to the marriage of the eldest granddaughter Zhong Nuan, and picks and chooses, and the result is that today's situation has emerged, the girl is nineteen years old, and she has not yet decided on a marriage.
Zhong Nuan felt that he had become a laughing stock in the capital, so people looked inferior.
Feng Lulu of Yongtaibo Mansion, it is said that her background is not high, but there is a reason why she appears here today, at the beginning of next month, she married Meng Weixuan, the eldest grandson of Yienhou Mansion, she is the future Mrs. Yienhou.
I have to admit that a woman's appearance will determine her fate in many cases, Yun Xiangrong thinks that Feng Lulu is very beautiful, standing next to Qi Huan'er is not inferior at all, and it is definitely enough to meet the standard of the four beauties in the capital.
Gu Chunchao probably felt that her family background was not good enough, so she was not on the list.
Meng Yunuo and Meng Yuting of Yienhou Mansion, Meng Yunuo is the candidate for the Seventh Princess before, the girl looks average, but she looks quiet and elegant, but she is obviously in a bad mood today.
Meng Yuting, a daughter, looks a little charming, which should be the type that many men like. She can appear at the banquet of the princess's mansion, she must have been recorded in the name of Mrs. Houfu, who got married the year before last, and after more than a year of marriage, her husband died in an accident and has moved back to her parents' house.
Yun Xiang Rongxin said that it would not be such a coincidence, he had just met Ge Hongtao, and he would see his cousin Meng Yuting again, and he regretted what he had just told Ning Muying about Ge Hongtao. It is estimated that the drama between these two is not over yet.
Yun Xiangrong's thoughts at that time were relatively simple, because the martial champion competition was about to begin, you can't wait for someone to really become a martial champion, and then say hello, if someone has already made a verbal appointment with someone else, what do you say you want?
If the Ge family accepts you, you will feel that Ge Hongtao's character is not good, and you will give up your principles when you see the princess.
If the Ge family rejects you, you will feel sorry and regret that you should have said hello earlier.
Besides, greeting and dating is not a thing at all. Greeting is meant to be intentional. It does not represent results.
After a few people got to know each other, Yun Xiangrong began to think that the eldest princess would arrange the royal sister-in-law and the princess together, but she didn't expect it to be a table of girls of the same age, which is very good, and the meal is casual.
"Third sister, there was no Meng Yuting at our table, I heard Sister Li say that Meng Yuting was not invited, but she came today. I saw her begging Meng Yunuo to have dinner with us at the same table, but Meng Yunuo had no choice, so she went to tell the eldest princess, hey, poor girl. The fourth princess said.
Yun Xiangrong just hummed, but felt that Ning Muying was too informative, and she didn't care about other people's gossip, but the crown princess had obviously received the prince's instructions to have a good relationship with the fourth princess.
In this way, Zhang Lingli is a good princess, and she will become a good queen in the future.
Soon the meal was served, Yun Xiangrong was Ning Muying on the left, Qi Huan'er on the right, and the girls were not very familiar, so there were not many topics to talk about, so let's talk about the dishes.
Today is obviously a birthday feast, but the dishes served are the dishes of the roast tail feast.
Water refining calf, Tonghua soft beef intestines, bright shrimp, white dragon Yao, sheepskin filigree, snow baby, fairy belly, small day crisp, chopsticks spring, through the door incense, green onion vinegar chicken, Tongxinsheng, phoenix fetus, clove incense, red sheep branch cane, eight immortal plates, Xijiang material, steamed bears, brocade turtles everywhere, shuttle sauce, milk stuffed fish, Wuxing fried, warm cold flowers stuffed donkey steamed, five livestock plates, grid food, red Luo nails, entwined flowers Yunmeng meat, carved treasure liver between the body.
Fortunately, the staple food is longevity noodles.
Halfway through the dish, the maid came in and said a few words to Meng Yuting, Meng Yuting left the table, I don't know why Yun Xiangrong felt that Meng Yunuo's face looked better, maybe she also had a headache with her sister, or she was helpless to come out with such a cheeky sister.
During the meal, Yun Xiangrong and Ning Muying whispered that they would not stay until the end of the banquet today, because their mother would return to Jiangnan tomorrow. Ning Muying immediately felt the same way, she felt that the person who loved herself the most in the world was Concubine Yan. She understood Yun Xiangrong's behavior of leaving early.
The dishes are all on the list, the girls have a small appetite, they have long stopped chopsticks, they are all gossiping, not gossiping, they are talking about what new shops have opened in the capital, what novelties are sold, and so on.
Xia He came in and said generously, Mrs. Changping Hou asked Yun Xiangrong to go over, this is the code that was said before, Jiang Qingchen's party is over, and Xia He will let him know.
Yun Xiangrong smiled and left.
Xia He and Qiu Cao took her away from the back door, this time the banquet in the princess's mansion invited more people, the stable did not have such a big parking place, they all unloaded the horses, the carriage stopped at the back door empty, and the horses were placed in the stable to rest.
The coachman went to lead the horses of the Hou Mansion, and Jiang Qingchen asked Yun Xiangrong to join him in the carriage.
The back door is only accessible by walking through a small lake and a back garden.
"Princess, there is someone under the tree by the lake." Xia He said.
"Go around, I came out early, and it was not good to be seen by others." Yun Xiangrong said.
So Xia He and Qiu Cao took Yun Xiangrong around the back garden to the back door of the princess's mansion, so they wouldn't meet the people by the lake head-on, but they could hear everything they said.
"Brother Hong Tao, is your heart so ruthless? Do you have to ask me to dig out my heart and show it to you so that you can understand? A woman said.
The voice is miserable, sincere, and beautiful, and the man should be very useful.
Out of curiosity, Yun Xiangrong stopped, and looked through the trees, my God, it is Ge Hongtao and Meng Yuting, how lucky I am, this kind of stubborn drama is fortunate to encounter.
"Meng, I have told you many times that it is impossible between us, what is the point of you always pestering me. Tricking me into coming out to meet you today only adds to my boredom with you. Ge Hongtao's voice was very calm.
"Meng? Brother Hong Tao, are you no longer willing to call me cousin Yuting? Do you dislike me for marrying someone, I haven't explained everything, it's all helpless, not my intention, I have always been hard to forget about you in my heart. Meng Yuting said.
"How many times have I told you, I have never disliked you, I sympathize with your misfortune, but I have never liked you, do you understand it, that is, even if you are not married now, I will not marry you." Ge Hongtao said.
"Now I don't like it, who told my little mother that she wanted to marry me. Brother Hong Tao, I know that your identity is different now, you have become a jinshi, but you also need help in the officialdom, Yi Enhou is my father, he will help you. Meng Yuting said.
"Back then, it was my mother who wanted to marry you into the Ge family, not my intention, I never agreed, even if I didn't get into the Jinshi now, I wouldn't want to marry you. I can't afford to climb the Yienhou Mansion. Ge Hongtao said.
Meng Yuting cried out all of a sudden, and said while crying: "Brother Hong Tao, have you forgotten that when I was a child, I fell from a tree, and you were in a hurry to carry me to see Langzhong?" Do you dare to say you've never liked me? ”
"I'm your cousin, and I'm obligated to look at you, but it's not a relationship between men and women, please think clearly. Even if you ask me in the future, if you can help, I will help, all because we are related by blood, not because of your so-called personal relationship. Ge Hongtao said.
"Brother Hong Tao, do I want to say that if I agree to be your concubine, you will agree to marry me?" Meng Yuting said.
"I don't want to be entangled with you anymore, I think I've made it very clear, it's impossible between us, don't use suicide as an excuse anymore. I know you haven't committed suicide, I came to see you to tell you that the friendship between you and my brother and sister has been exhausted by you, and if you say any reason in the future, I won't see you, even if you really commit suicide. I advise you, if you have wasted this energy on me, it is better to please your mother and let her help you find a good family. After Ge Hongtao finished speaking, he immediately strode away.
Ge Hongtao knew Meng Yuting too well, when her marriage was not engaged, she coaxed her mother and asked Ge Hongtao to be the back, and later she was recognized, thinking that the two families would die of old age and never get along, but she was unlucky and married a short-lived ghost, and at this time she remembered Ge Hongtao's spare tire.
Yun Xiangrong felt that he was short-sighted, Meng Yuting, who only lived in his own logical thoughts, had never seen it, Ge Hongtao was really a show and met a soldier, and he couldn't explain it. In fact, it's okay to strive for happiness by yourself, but you also have to look at the other party's meaning, it's really useless to stalk, especially for a man like Ge Hongtao who has the right idea.
Before, Yun Xiangrong felt that Ge Hongtao was a little troublesome, and he had to take a look at the matter with Ning Muying first, but as soon as he saw Ge Hongtao's attitude towards things, Yun Xiangrong's good impression of him soared.
Everyone's emotional experience can't be decided by themselves, but the way you deal with it is determined by your personality, obviously Ge Hongtao doesn't like to drag mud and water, if you don't like it, you don't like it, tell you directly, don't waste your time, and don't entangle with you.
Summing up Ge Hongtao's thoughts, meeting today is an understanding, your life or death has nothing to do with me, even if you take advantage of my reputation, it is impossible to force me to marry you.