23. Determined to win?
Orchid Garden.
It was still early, but there were already a lot of carriages parked outside the door. The girls brought by the ladies of each family sat under the porch in twos and threes, and everyone was surprised to see the carriage of the Lou family coming.
Chen Jingzhen got out of the carriage with a smile and looked around first, but he only had time to catch the back of Lou Que beating a horse and leaving.
The girls recognized her, and hurriedly helped their young lady to gather around and ask questions. Chen Jingzhen quickly picked up his frustration, and proudly revealed to everyone the news that the five sons of the Lou family were traveling on horseback, which caused the little girls to exclaim.
Zheng Xian'er listened in the carriage and couldn't help but sigh secretly.
Doesn't it mean that the girls of famous families are cautious and polite?
Could it be that she heard something wrong? Could it be that those frighteningly strict rules of etiquette are only for widows, but not for the little girls in the boudoir?
It's a bit of a bully.
Seeing that Chen Jingzhen's maid had removed the footstool that got out of the car, Zheng Xian'er had to smile and shake her head, and jumped out of the car by lifting the curtain.
Several little girls who were standing close to each other let out an exclamation in unison, and some people blamed Chen Jingzhen and said, "The people you brought by yourself don't look at it at all!" Why did Cui'er remove the stool in such a daze? What if I fall this girl? ”
Chen Jingzhen was a little embarrassed, and pouted after a while: "She's not my girl!" She is the third young grandmother of the Lou family - the famous widow! ”
"Yikes!" "It's her!" "Why is she here?" The little girls squeaked.
In the distance, a little girl in a water-green shirt came over like a willow helping the wind, and said hurriedly: "As soon as the third young grandmother came back, we were rude!" Fourth Sister Chen is really, even if she brought a distinguished guest, she didn't let me know in advance! ”
Someone next to her immediately answered: "Not only did she refuse to inform, but she also deliberately removed the stool so that people couldn't get out of the car!" I've never seen someone so shameless, sitting in the carriage in someone's house, annoying the escort of the son in someone's house, and actually throwing people in the carriage, and not mentioning it to us! ”
Chen Jingzhen's face was flushed by what these people said, and the girl in the green shirt had come over and took Zheng Xian'er's hand: "Our Lan Xinyuan is the most lively, and the third young grandmother doesn't have to be restrained!" I'm the sixth child of the Ge family, just look for me if you have something! Over there is the eldest lady of the forester's family, and next to her is the sister of the Lu Siguanren, and the third girl of the Li family......"
She pointed to everyone present and introduced them one by one, and Zheng Xian'er couldn't remember so much for a while. It's just that when she heard the words "Li family", her face changed slightly, and she couldn't help but look at it twice.
These little girls are obviously not all in harmony with each other. But as far as the eye can see, it is a bright face like flowers and bones, even if it is a quarrel, it does not lose its frankness and cuteness.
The youthful flamboyance is really enviable!
Zheng Xian'er sighed with emotion and walked in with the sixth lady of the Ge family.
Needless to say, the pavilions and flowers inside are exquisite and elegant, Zheng Xian'er knows that she is a layman, so she naturally won't ask too much.
As for the pen, ink, books and inkstones prepared in the pavilion, Zheng Xian'er avoided them even more, and her timidity was too obvious, and even Miss Lin, who had been upset with her before, laughed.
Fortunately, the little girls did not laugh at her seriously, and when they heard that her embroidery was acceptable, someone immediately came and dragged her to a pavilion to gather together.
Zheng Xian'er was not busy with needlework, but just supported her ears to listen to the gossip of others.
Who knew that what she heard from this really made her hear some doorways: it turned out that none of the little girls in this garden didn't know that Miss Chen Si was thinking about the fifth son of the Lou family!
It's already to the point where everyone knows about it. In this way, the Chen family is already determined to win Lou Que?
Zheng Xian'er was sullen and a little uncomfortable.
However, by the time she heard another news, the previous "discomfort" was completely negligible.
A quick-talking little girl told her that there was a shared garden between Lan Xinyuan and the academy over there, and although both sides kept the rules and did not cross the line, it happened from time to time that there was a rockery or a clear spring to connect poems and verses with each other - Miss Chen Si was the most poetic among the daughters of all the families, and she naturally took the lead in most of such elegant things.
No wonder Lou Que knows that Miss Chen Si comes every time, it turns out that there is such a relationship!
Thinking of this, Zheng Xian'er couldn't sit still.
In the afternoon, sure enough, a little girl came and said with a smile: "Fourth Sister Chen brought a few more people to the rockery, and asked Lou Gongzi to come out to write poems, and the academy is coaxing!" ”
Hearing this, before others had time to react, Zheng Xian'er was the first to jump up: "Look at it!" ”