Chapter 20: Chrysanthemum Appreciation

And Rong Zhengrong, who was staring at her with wide eyes and was about to see her joke, was stunned, and moved his gaze to Shen Kuo. This looks like a childish, ten-year-old little brother, wearing a short jacket and trousers, dressed as an ordinary person, but a shot is a hundred taels?

What else is there to say, you can't slander her to hook up with a foreign man again, after all, this is just a teenage brother, a head shorter than Rong Jin, so Rong Ci can only mock her: "My sister is so generous today!" If this generosity is against a few maids who serve you, where can everyone be discordant, and the old lady has to mediate! ”

Rong Jin didn't have the leisure to know this at this time, she pulled Shen Kuo out of the crowd, went to the corner, and asked in a low voice: "How do you know that I don't have any silver, and I will give one hundred taels if I pay it back!" ”

Shen Kuo clasped his hands to his chest, glanced at her deflated fish-shaped purse, and said: "Just now you have been pinching the purse, I can see at a glance that you have no silver, as for this hundred taels, I will take out this silver ticket casually," while saying that, he also took out the silver ticket from his sleeve and spread it out in front of her, "Oh, you see, one hundred taels is the least." ”

This is going to be replaced by someone else, it is showing off, but the child in front of him has a sincere face, his eyebrows and eyes are open, and he has a look of "I am also very embarrassed, but the smallest silver ticket I have ever seen is a hundred taels", so that Rong Jin has nothing to say.

She wanted to pinch his ears and pick it up and scold him for spending money, but this breath was now suffocating, after all, people helped her, didn't they?

"I'll save money to pay you back," Rong Jin squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, "Where do you live?" ”

"My sister just saved my life, so I don't have to pay back a hundred taels of silver," Shen Kuo waved his hand.

One hundred taels is a monthly example for four or five years for Rong Jin, but Yu Shen Kuo is not even enough for a table of decent dishes, and there is no one next to the Shen family, that is, he has money, and in this world where a hundred Wen can buy a stone of rice, he has to spend ten taels of silver to eat a bowl of Yangchun noodles in Yangzhou.

Naturally, the eyes of the boy who grew up in the silver vault since he was a child are also poisonous, and he always feels uncomfortable at the first glance when he sees Rong Jin, and he can't say where he is uncomfortable, and then he knows the reason after thinking about it, it turns out that she is dressed too plainly, and she has never seen such a plain young lady.

But Rong Jin is a person who admits death, even if this hundred taels is not worth it in his eyes, it is not her own, she doesn't want to owe anyone the most, "Fang is the one who walked ashore from the water by yourself, I didn't save you, you just say where the house is, I will definitely give the silver another day, but it will be later." ”

Before the words fell, Shen Kuo slipped into the crowd, he seemed to be sure that Rong Jin, an eldest lady, was not good at talking to him in the crowd about what debts were repaid.

Rong Jin could only sigh helplessly, but only half of the breath was sighed, and the other part taught Zhimin to swallow it back raw.

"What are you doing here? Let's go to see the chrysanthemums! Zhimin couldn't help but grab her wrist and drag her into the crowd, and after a while, he gathered with Mrs. Cheng and Zhu and others, and walked from the porch with them.

Rong Jin didn't notice it at all, and Rong Ci stared at her with a pair of secluded eyes behind her.

not only caught up with the Shen family's eldest man, but also intersected with Miss Shen Jiayan, and Fang Cai actually made a move for a hundred taels of silver, and this sister who should have been at the bottom climbed on her head at some point. Rong Ci thought, I'll have to play tricks and make her ugly later!

Today is Chongyang, pay attention to appreciating chrysanthemums, but to this garden, appreciate chrysanthemums should not sit and enjoy but enjoy, along the nine-song corridor to the inside, it is like walking into the sea of chrysanthemums, as far as the eye can see, chrysanthemums, melon leaf chrysanthemums, wheat pole chrysanthemums...... The colors are different, but there are still tens of thousands of marigolds in the most blooming.

The corridor is also complicated, with a straight corridor in the east and west, and a crooked corridor in the middle connecting the two sides, but now men and women are on one side of the east and west, and no one walks on the curved corridor in the middle.

When he first saw it, Rong Jin was so shocked by this scene that he couldn't speak, and after a few more glances, he felt that his eyes seemed to be dyed yellow, and he raised his eyes to look at Liang Lu, which was amazing, and even the pink peach painted on the beam was also seen as chrysanthemum.

In fact, not only Rong Jin, but also the rest of the ladies and ladies were tired of watching, so they all turned their eyes to look at the people on the opposite corridor.

Only Rong Jin and Zhimin are stupid.

"Does anyone in your house have a preference for chrysanthemum?"

"My grandmother loves Ju, isn't it her birthday today? Chongyang chrysanthemum, about this reason. ”

"I see."

"Rong Jin, look at the other side, how do I feel that my brother is staring at you?" Zhimin suddenly pointed to the opposite porch.

Rong Jin looked over, and the dazzling red faintly stinged her eyes.

Cheng Zonglun smiled and waved at them generously, but Rong Jin avoided his eyes, looked down at his toes, and his ears were buzzing, all of which was the sentence "I recognized the wrong person." ”

I don't know why, just this glance, her heart turned a thousand times, did she look at me, or Zhimin, or Rong Qing?

In fact, she never even paid attention to anyone's gaze before, because she was self-aware, and those people were not looking at her.

Only this one, if he didn't see her, there was a trace of sourness in his heart, it was the first time in so many years, but it was just a trace of it, it was a little sour that he peeled a green orange, and the tongue/tip tasted a little sour, since this sour, then she didn't eat it.

Rong Jin raised his head and continued to walk forward......

After appreciating a circle of chrysanthemums, everyone was introduced to the "autumn mood." ”

The attic has four pillars and three floors, and the eaves are helmet-topped, and the gold is splendid. The female guests are arranged on the second and third floors, and the windows are opened to look out, or the outer corridor is upstream, and you can overlook the vast view of half of the garden.

When going up the stairs, Rong Zheng saw a small room at the bottom of the first floor, and excitedly pointed it out to a few younger sisters, "Look, that's a wine cellar, isn't it?" ”

"It's just a small room for storing wine, what kind of wine cellar is it," Li said with a smile.

Rong Zheng looked displeased.

Rong Ci glanced at the small room, and then at Rong Jin, his eyes flashing slightly.

Up to the third floor, the Cheng family's seat was in the north-facing side, and Zhimin didn't want to get too close to her sister-in-law, so she came over to Rong Jin.

It was still early to leave the banquet, everyone talked word by word, and Zhimin sat with Rong Jin all the time, chatting about idle days without a match, and laughing out loud from time to time.

This is very dazzling in the eyes of Rong Ci on the side, she is Rong Qing's little follower, but today Rong Qing was robbed by Rong He, Rong Zheng went to Mrs. Hou in front of her again, and Rong Jin, who she looked down on the most, had a hot fight with Miss Cheng Jia, and she was the only one who was left alone, she was not a taste in her heart, so she could only take the fruit from the case angrily and eat it.

"Hmph, it's really shameless," Zhimin stared at the table in the west, and suddenly slammed out a melon seed shell.

"Everyone, Miss Xiucheng, you are drinking tea in the teahouse, how many pairs of eyes are looking at you around, maybe one of them is your future in-law!" Rong Jin nudged her and quipped.

"Hmph, I don't care if I'm a lady or not, I just want to say, I don't see her," Zhimin pointed to a slender girl at Mrs. Liuhou's table, who was wearing a dress with a treasure pattern and a slender figure, who seemed to be having a lively conversation with Princess Rui.

"That's my sister, it's not good to be filial to her aunt, she runs to my mother at every turn to offer courtesy, and now she is currying favor in front of Princess Rui, and her pretense is really disgusting!" Zhimin said that he slammed a melon seed shell on the ground.

"It's not easy for concubines, if you don't please your wife, how can you live in the inner house!" Rong Jin thought of herself, and couldn't help but say a few words for the maid.

This greatly touched Zhimin's moldy head, her face turned pale, she slapped the melon seeds in her hand on the case, and then poured beans to count her sister's bad deeds.

It turned out that Zhimin's sister was even more powerful than a few in the Lin Mansion, and she was used to pretending to be pitiful and weak in front of Mrs. Cheng since she was a child. Mrs. Cheng has a strong personality and eats her the most, so she always misunderstands that her straightforward daughter Zhimin bullied her, and Zhimin is a person who is not good at talking, and she will do it if she disagrees, and she always falls into the trap of Sister Shu.

So that since childhood, no matter what dispute happened between the two sisters, Mrs. Cheng and Mrs. Cheng thought that Zhimin had bullied her sister, and Zhimin was dumb and ate Coptis chinensis, and she couldn't tell if she had any bitterness.

"In this way, your sister city is very deep," Rong Jin looked at the table again, and said, "But you said that your mother likes your sister even more, I'm afraid it may not be, after all, you are the one who gave birth to her pregnancy in October." ”

Zhimin shook his head and waved his hand to signal that Rong Jin didn't need to say any more.

"Then let me ask you, you and your sister taught the poems and books by the same master?" Rong Jin poured himself a cup of tea and took it up and sipped it leisurely.

"This is different, I told my mother, I can't share anything with her, not even the master," Zhimin raised his head and said proudly: "My brother and I are the famous Mr. Han who retired from the Hanlin Academy, her, hum!" It's just an old master who is not famous. ”

"From childhood to adulthood, did Mrs. Cheng lead you to the banquets and entertainment of each family, or did she lead her more?"

"That's me, of course!"

"Isn't that the end of it, and the beloved son of your parents has a far-reaching plan for it, and invites the best master for you to take you out to see the world, is this more real than a few clothes and jewelry, and a few coaxing words? That's what you're planning for your future! ”

Zhimin seemed to frown, lowered her eyes, and fluttered her long eyelashes like butterfly wings, and suddenly she raised her eyes, "This sounds like some truth, but how do you know?" ”

Rong Jin, who was sipping tea, choked up, how did she know? How does she know about a motherless child? But although she hasn't been by her mother's side for a day, she has eyes and can see!

Xu's and Li's, how mothers treat their daughters, she sees them all, and it is precisely because she is outside the bureau that she can see it more clearly.

So she smiled bitterly: "I haven't eaten pork and never seen a pig run?" ”

"I also said that I don't look like a young lady, look at what you said!" Zhimin poked her shoulder with her finger, and Rong Jin playfully stuck out her tongue.