On the day of Chongyang, it was the day of Mrs. Cheng's sixtieth birthday, and the four carriages in front of the Lin Mansion were ready.

Rong Zheng finished his makeup and hair and went to Suo Chunju. Her hairpins are all pure gold and emerald hairpins, and she is wearing a red silk brocade satin robe, and a pair of bracelets on her wrists are still gold bracelets inlaid with precious stones, which are simply hanging on the bottom of the box.

When Aunt Chen saw it, she shook her head again and again, stretched out her hand to pull out two golden hairpins for her, replaced them with plain silver hairpins, and said: "If you talk about gorgeousness, no one in this house can compare to you, it is true that red and gold are the most flattering, but those official wives prefer elegant and gentle women, don't be too ostentatious!" ”

Rong Zheng helped the silver hairpin in the mirror, slightly displeased.

"In front of outsiders, you are more restrained, don't touch Rong Qing. The Zhu family wants to give all the good men in the world to their daughters, you just let her go, there is only one daughter, how many families can she allow? As long as you open your eyes, pick a good family, and then make a move, virtuous and gentle, even if you pretend to be pretended, alas, it's a pity that your mother can't help you look at each other by your side......" Aunt Chen took a look at her neck, twisted the handkerchief and wiped off the corner of her mouth, and then looked up and down, left and right, and said with satisfaction: "Okay, you go." ”

"Mother, what kind of person do you say is a good person?" Rong Zheng helped the hairpin.

"Didn't you say it last time? What your father means is that the brothers who have serious errands in the household department and the military department are good, and the lord's family doesn't have to go to see it, and the mother also feels that she has real power to be able to speak in the court. ”

Rong Zheng bowed his head, but what appeared in his mind was the face of the second cousin of the Zhu family, every time he came home, the second cousin especially loved to talk to her, and the gift she gave was thicker than that given to Rong Qing, and she was born as a talent, but it was a pity that she had no fame, and she didn't think about it.

However, Zhu has a completely different opinion from Aunt Chen, in Chunhui Hall, she said to Rong Qing: "You hold a shelf and don't let people underestimate it is serious, as for these men in Beijing, I have seen it once, and there are only a few descendants of the Hou family, as well as the son of General Cheng, and the rest are nothing to look at, if you don't like it, it doesn't matter, there will be a draft ...... next year" Zhu said while wearing red coral for her with his own hands, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that his daughter was unworthy, and it was a pity not to enter the palace to be a master.

"Draft? I'm not going, I can be a father at my age, I ......"

"Whatever you say, beware of the misfortune that comes out of your mouth!" Zhu made a gesture of silence, and his gaze was horizontal, staring straight at her until she lowered her eyes.

After a long time, Rong Qingcai raised her head, looked at her mother, who was busy taking care of her after a long time, and carefully reached out to pull the cuffs trimmed with Zhu's bamboo leaf pattern, but she pushed them away.

"Let's go, turn around and your sisters have arrived," Zhu went out without waves, and Rong Qing hurriedly followed.

As for Rong Jin, this time she wore out the ancient smoke pattern Bixia Luo dress and the smoke and water pattern flower skirt at the bottom of the box, and finally enough to stand with a few sisters, but there was less jewelry. However, her pink and jade face, only on rouge, she is as glamorous as a peach and plum, and wearing more hairpins looks cumbersome.

So when the sisters came out of the gate and saw Rong Jin, who was half-wrapped by the sun, next to the carriage, they were all stunned.

Rong Jin could see the things in her eyes clearly, that is, at this moment, she really understood that she was actually beautiful, more beautiful than her sisters.

She took the initiative to step out and motioned for a few sisters to come over.

Then the wife also went out of the gate, she walked very fast, flicked her handkerchief, and Rong Qing, who followed her, lowered her head, and passed by the crowd to the first carriage.

Several concubines saw that Zhu was unhappy, and they didn't want to ask her how to distribute the carriage, and suddenly out of the door came a Li who was wearing an ochre-colored silk placket and a long gown, and there was a goose-yellow girl beside her.

This is the second wife of the Lin Mansion and the second daughter-in-law Lin Ronghe.

Rong Jin had only seen her a few times when she was greeting her, but she hadn't said it seriously, but she remembered this Li very clearly, and the laughter was so loud that everyone couldn't hear that she was laughing, and she was laughing so fakely that people didn't even know how to answer the words. And Lin Ronghe, who she was carrying, only died last month, because she was a concubine, she only talked to Rong Qing, and she didn't even bother to give them these concubines, but Rong Qing didn't seem to care for her very much.

Li squinted his eyes and glanced at Rong Jin, sneered disdainfully, and said to Zhu: "Sister-in-law, you are also kind, just take Rong Qing with you, why bother with a few of them?" ”

I don't know if she did it on purpose, this voice happened to fall in the ears of Rong Jin's sisters, and several concubines glanced at each other, and their faces were not very good-looking.

"It's time to take it out to see the scene," Zhu replied nonchalantly.

"That's sister-in-law, you are virtuous, but don't let Rong Qing and a few of them squeeze together in this carriage, let Rong and Rong Qing sit together," he said with a smile and pushed Rong He out.

After listening to these flattering words, Zhu felt much better, so he arranged for Rong Jin and Rong He to ride in the same car, and the other three concubines to sit in the same car. Although Rong Qing was reluctant, he didn't dare to disobey the Zhu family anymore.

In fact, the Zhu family has always looked down on the Li family, her husband is just a small head of the household, and the Li family herself is the daughter of a court captain, a small family, and often says things that make people cry and laugh.

But with this concubine by her side for comparison, the more she can highlight that she is from a famous family, noble and generous, because she likes to listen to her dog mouth and can't spit out ivory, likes her to please and flatter, and likes to say what she wants to say but can't say because of her identity, such as now.

Rong Jin sat in a carriage with Rong Zheng and Rong Ci, and several sisters rarely had the same hatred, and they all hated to shoot Li with their eyes.

"This aunt is funny, she can't figure out the affairs of her own family, and she comes to talk to us, she thinks that her wife can afford her again?" Rong Zheng took his daffodil-embroidered veil as Li's, and Zola couldn't tear it to pieces.

This time Rong Ci also stood with her, she said: "On weekdays, I don't like that Rong He the most, and I go to the second sister's side, the second sister doesn't like her, and I don't know how thick her skin is, and she can stick it up again and again, I look nauseous," Rong Ci covered his mouth with a handkerchief and vomited, and remembered something, and said: "Earlier, I heard my wife say that this Cheng family originally only invited our family, but later I heard that we still have a second room, and we didn't split up, so I took the post by the way." ”

"But no, what is the name of my uncle and her mother's family in the officialdom? Mrs. Cheng didn't have to be at all? Rong Zheng covered his mouth and laughed, but Rong Jin, who was sitting in the middle, was indifferent, so Rong Zheng poked her elbow and asked, "Why don't you laugh?" ”

In fact, Rong Jin also wanted to laugh, but she couldn't see Li's villain's face, but she couldn't laugh.

It's like talking bad things to people close to her, but on her left sat a second sister who always used her as a gunman, and on her right sat a third sister who pulled her hairpin, neither of them were confidant, and she said bad things about people in one place, she only felt that her back was cold, maybe she was laughing, and these two put an arrow in her back!

But it's hard to say, Rong Jin can only divert the topic, "I'm thinking about what kind of family this Cheng family is, what etiquette to pay attention to, I don't have good rules, I don't have to trouble my wife, and I also trouble my sisters." ”

"That's right, who let you keep it outside for so many years, and you haven't seen a big scene?" Rong Zheng smiled contemptuously, but she asked Rong Jin to come over just to use her to steal the limelight from Rong Qing, and she didn't want her to make mistakes, so she said: "You can do what you do, you can do whatever we do." ”

Rong Jin's face was displeased, and he stopped talking.

Then there was a sudden silence in the carriage, and no one was silent.

Along the way, Rong Jin sat on pins and needles and put them together, so embarrassed that she wanted to get into the cracks. In order to break the deadlock, Rong Jin asked a few more questions about the Cheng family, and the two sisters spoke again.

It turns out that this Cheng family has great military achievements and dragon merits, and it stands to reason that he should have been crowned a marquis, but this General Cheng is a strange person.

At the beginning, the saint wanted to give him the title of Pingyanghou, but he did not accept it, saying that he was a self-made general, and if he received the shadow, the soldiers would alienate him, and he had to share the weal and woe with those brothers who were born and died, so that he was worthy of being their general.

After hearing these words, Rong Jin couldn't help but be in awe of General Cheng's family. There are corrupt officials in this world, but there are also many good officials like General Cheng Lao who are not famous or profitable, which is really desirable.

Suddenly, she remembered what she overheard in Huifangyuan last time, it seemed that her father intended to match General Cheng's son and Rongqing, and she didn't know what kind of person it was.

After a short time, the carriage arrived at Kangning Street, a short way from Decheng Mansion, and there was a faint sound of firecrackers and noisy people.

Rong Jin lifted the curtain and looked out, the other side of the avenue was full of all kinds of soft sedan carriages, and there were still family members dredging outside, and they were orderly and did not occupy the road.

Rong Jin got off the sedan chair behind several sisters, and the firecracker skin fell on her, because of her petite figure, when she covered her ears and looked around, she could only see all kinds of clothes and sideburns. She was submerged in a pile of splendid flowers, pushing and shoving forward, but fortunately the red-sleeved finch pulled her from time to time.

On the door, the wives handed over the post, socialized a few words and then moved forward, Rong Jin didn't look closely, so he followed the threshold and continued to walk, and finally stopped in front of a pavilion.

The attic is called autumn and strong, divided into three layers, bright and open, green tile and Zhu eaves, you can see the rotor color painting of the big point gold on the gold line on the beam between the first room, the color of the painting of Zhu and the gold leaf are pasted, it is dizzying.

Rong Jin was greatly amazed, being able to imitate a garden in the style of Jiangnan in Kyoto, although the old general Cheng was not a marquis, his family background was very thick!

Rich!